Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bayer cross has belonged to Sterling since its predecessor company bought the Bayer assets from the Alien Property Custodian during World War I. But in Latin America the name and trademark, like those of many another famed pharmaceutical (e.g., salvarsan, luminal, atabrine) have always been German-owned...
Says a Cambridge adage: "Banned in Boston is the trademark of a good book." Last fortnight Strange Fruit (TIME, March 20), Lillian Smith's controversial novel about Southern racial problems, miscegenation and lynching, joined the long list of Boston's hall-marked books.* A policeman had read some of it and was shocked. "The boldest indecent passages I have ever seen," said Boston's Police Commissioner Thomas F. Sullivan. The disturbing passages, he explained, were shown him by a father who had bought Strange Fruit as a present for his daughter in the WAVES. Said...
...Chatting with Molotov one day in his room in the new yellow brick Russian Embassy, President Roosevelt picked up the inkwell on his desk, turned it over in his hand. Then he noticed the trademark: "Made in Germany." Molotov blushed, but finally laughed...
...Doughboy Trademark...
...Burns, papa of the peacetime bazooka, traveled to Texas' Camp Hood, for the first time laid eyes on his trademark's military namesake (TIME, April 5), found it too large for his mouth...