Word: tubers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Potato Picking Contest (Wed. 2:15 p.m., MBS). Maine's Governor Lewis O. Barrows, Idaho's Governor Barzilla W. Clark pick up freshly-dug potatoes. Tuber-by-tuber account from Fort Fairfield...
...Congress passed and President Hoover signed a bill enlarging the class of eligible patentees to include anyone who had invented or discovered a new plant, provided it was asexually reproduced and not a tuber-propagated plant...
...such thing as a plant patent in the U. S. when Luther Burbank died in 1926. In 1930 President Hoover signed a bill enlarging the class of eligible patentees to include anyone "who has invented or discovered and asexually reproduced any distinct variety of plant other than the tuber-propagated plant." One patent covers an improved mushroom, another a pecan nut. Flowers account for more patents than edible plants, roses for the most flower patents, hybrid-tea shrubs for the most roses. Luther Burbank's heirs have patented some of his plums and peaches. Patent...
...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 to get a patent examined; on the average, two years to get one granted...
...Cardington. One evening last week the R-101 nuzzled her mooring mast, ready for her initial flight to India. She was a beautiful tuber, biggest thing of the air? length 777 ft.; capacity 5,500,000 cu. ft.; lifting capacity 155 tons, five oil-driven motors...