Word: semisoft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. John Manning van Heusen, 63, inventor of the first semisoft collar; of pneumonia; in Scarsdale, N. Y. He patented his collar in 1913. marketed it in 1921 with Phillips Jones Co. which has sole manufacturing rights. In 1922 Inventor Van Heusen and Phillips Jones Co. successfully sued the bulk of the U. S. collar industry for infringement of patents. In the following year, however, Inventor Van Heusen was sued for $6,000,000 by John B. Bolton. For patents he had assigned to Van Heusen, Inventor Bolton later received $1,000,000. Other Van Heusen inventions: nonslip garters, nonslip...