Word: trademark
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Lazare Kaplan has now developed a way to dog-tag diamonds. It has patented a device that uses a laser beam to inscribe gems with a trademark and seven-digit number that is visible only under magnification. The company spent ten years developing the desk-size engraving device, which, it says, performs the delicate operation without affecting either the clarity or the color of the stones. The firm has leased one of its first six machines to a Japanese company and three of them to Manhattan's Gemological Institute of America, which will inscribe stones for jewelry retailers. Says...
...Dietz, 86, Hollywood songwriter who penned the lyrics to such standards as Dancing in the Dark, You and the Night and the Music and Louisiana Hayride; of Parkinson's disease; in New York City. A public relations executive who invented Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Leo the Lion trademark and is said to have coined Greta Garbo's line "I want to be alone," Dietz was amazingly prolific (more than 500 songs) and quick, whipping up That's Entertainment in 30 minutes with his longtime collaborator Arthur Schwartz. One of show business's genuine Renaissance...
Ledford, his eye on a buck, would like to market the artificial onion. The thing was, he explained, he wanted to put the registered trademark of the Vidalia sweet onion, a cartoonish character called the Yumion (sort of the Pillsbury Doughboy of the onion racket), on his product, and for that he needed permission from the Chamber. Walden said he would bring it up at the next board meeting, but he suspected Ledford "could bank on it." The editor bounded out, a happy...
...growers and the Chamber of Commerce here say the real Vidalia is raised within a 35-mile radius of Vidalia. Growers who belong to the Chamber's tag program produce onions that are graded and approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and bear a tag with the trademark Yumion. The grower's name, address and telephone number appear on the tag. To accept a bag of onions without all this pedigreed labeling, according to Grower Jack Todd, is to risk buying something less than a Vidalia. Todd says he can tell the difference between the taste...
...less permissive era, showing one's suspenders was considered unseemly. Not so today. When Drugstore Magnate Lewis Lehrman ran for Governor of New York last year, his political trademark was a prominently displayed set of fire-engine red ones. Lehrman lost, but he is sticking with his red suspenders. After all, he says, "they hold my pants...