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...chief engineer was tearing his hair." One company had not only lost many enlistees but had 1,500 applications for releases (from classification as a necessary worker), so that men could enlist. Another company in one day lost three turret-lathe operators out of 30. Another lost four automatic-screw machinists out of 18. A parts plant lost eight out of 16 patternmakers and another which employed eight lost eight (Navy pays up to $138 a month plus allowances for them...
...engine is a diesel only one-third as big and only a fraction of the weight of the best former diesels of the same horsepower. The propeller is the first marine screw whose blades can be adjusted to any angle or can be completely reversed while the boat is in motion. Results...
...patient. The tube, which is very soft, and scarcely larger than macaroni, is easy to swallow, does not keep the patient from sleeping, can even be used in the day time while he sits in a chair. The milk drips into his stomach constantly, its flow controlled by a screw valve...
...accusation was made last fortnight by Thurman Arnold, to the Senate Patents Committee. Mr. Dzus, said Mr. Arnold, had invented a unique self-locking screw that fastens the cowling on a plane's nose to the fuselage. He couldn't produce enough, and he wouldn't license anyone else. Ergo: U.S. bombers and fighters waited while Dzus failed to deliver. Said Thurman Arnold: "A perfect example of a patent . . . acting to block entire assembly lines...
When Toolmaker Dzus invented his screw, his employer offered him $100 a year for it. Instead Dzus took his patent and went into business for himself. That, he figured, was what patent laws are for. By the time the Senators had heard him through, Thurman Arnold's unterrified "perfect example" had proved just about the opposite of what Mr. Arnold intended...