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Word: tubers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Sep. 26, 1938 | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Patent Centennial | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Trapaeolum majus Burpeeii | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Patent No. 2,000,000 | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Patched Shoe | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

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