Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Resisting Train" come into its own. With nearly one-third of the country's Class I rail mileage in bankruptcy, with two-thirds of the passenger traffic lost since 1929 to motorcars, busses, airlines, something had to be done. The bogey of government ownership, long the subject of dark predictions by Federal Transportation Co-Ordinator Eastman, loomed ominously close with the introduction of a bill in the Senate fortnight ago to have the U. S. take over in January...
...Subject to both uses and abuses, patents are granted on the theory that, in return for making a full and complete disclosure of his secret, an inventor is entitled to the exclusive right to make, use and sell it for 17 years. To be patentable, inventions must fall within one of six different classes of subject matter: 1) an art or process, 2) a machine, 3) an article of manufacture, 4) a composition of matter, 5) a plant asexually reproduced other than a tuber-propagated plant, 6) a new and ornamental design. It takes at least three months...
...make everybody rich. It made Frank Parish rich enough to buy the old Presidential yacht Mayflower for $16,000. The pipe line crawled northward out of Texas, headed for the Kansas City territory controlled by goateed, alert Henry Doherty. What happened after that and why, was the subject of a four-week criminal trial concluded last week in Chicago's Federal Courts. There Frank Parish and an associate were on trial for using the mails to defraud in selling Missouri-Kansas stock before the company toppled into receivership in 1932 with losses to investors of $35,000,000. Highlights...
...raise a respectable objection to this solemnly hilarious japery. Even those who do not like English novels because they consider the English an annoyingly asinine race will find Author Linklater's soothing. Like many a sourly smiling Scotsman, he considers the Sassenachs a comic spectacle, fit subject for a farce...
...short subject, which is very moral, seems to represent the beginning of a series of "uplift" two-reelers fighting against crime. This particular one dramatizes a very clever crime and then shows us that the federal agents most always get their man. The crime is so skillful and the entrance of the policemen so fortuitous that we felt quite stimulated to our first major crime, Q.E.D...