Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week Nate Cummings sat in a new walnut-paneled office backed by a carved lion's head on the wall-the trademark of Reid, Murdoch's "Monarch" brand, which he now owns, along with the "Yacht Club" and Sprague, Warner's "Richelieu" and "None-Such...
...seem to be having your troubles with a dictating machine trademarked Dictaphone. Because your editorial treatment involves an evident misconception of a fundamental point of law concerning the use of trademarks, I'd like to set the matter straight for the benefit of all concerned. On p.18 of the March 19 issue you use the word to denote a phonographic apparatus to take dictation - but with a small "d" as a common noun instead of a capital "D" as a proper noun, denoting a trademark which it is. (It's like saying joe doakes, smoking a camel, drove...
From the Ministry of Supply came an unostentatious announcement that 19 Government-owned war factories, employing 50,000 workers, had been released for civilian production. Simultaneously came news that one of Britain's leading automobile makers, Standard of Coventry, whose trademark is a Union Jack, had been freed from war output a month ago. Dunlop of Speke (manufacturer of rubber products) had been similarly released last fortnight...
...metallurgist, a piece of metal often bears its own trademark. Even after it is melted down and mixed, he can tell, by close study of alloys and traces of other elements present, just where the metal came from. The metallurgists' analysis of Jap materials identified one source of the abundance: "a considerable part" of the metal now killing U.S. fighting men came from the scrap which the U.S. sold to Japan before...
Snapped the Army & Navy Journal impatiently: it is high time for Russia to help her Allies with a "second front" in Poland. Quick as an echo last week came the reply of Russia's own army journal, Red Star: such talk bears "the Goebbels trademark." Izvestia chimed in: "Small-caliber strategists. . . ." Russia's mighty Pravda (circulation: 2,000,000) had already paid its blunt respects: "This journal looks ugly...