Word: uses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Chicago's Republican Tribune: "If Mrs. Hoover's Southern tea party has driven the Southern fanatics away from union with Northern fanatics, it has been the best use of tea since the night it was thrown into Boston Harbor...
Consumption. Production of U. S. tin is negligible; but this country consumed (1928) 81,516 tons, or more than half the world's consumption. Tin is used mostly in combination with other metals. Most famed union is the copper-tin alloy bronze, from which was fashioned the short sword of the Roman Legions. Varying proportions of copper and tin give gun metal, bell metal, babbitt metal and many another alloy, the greater the percentage of tin the harder being the resulting composition. A tin and lead alloy is solder. Greatest use of tin (35% of total) is the making...
...Robert Bosch Co.. claiming as its most valued asset, exclusive right to the Bosch name in the U. S. Inventor Bosch contended that his name did not become the property of American Bosch Corp. in 1917 since he had an agreement with the original company that they might use his name only so long as they bought their materials from the German parent plant. But no written agreement to this effect had been made. Inventor Bosch's contention collapsed. Nor could he protest the original seizure of the Bosch stock, because of a restraining post-War German-American treaty...
Supreme Court Justice Thomas C. T. Grain, therefore declared on those merits of the case which were, admissible, ruled the Bosch name an American Bosch Corp. property, denied to Inventor Bosch the right to use his own name to sell his own products. Should the appeal of the Robert Bosch Magneto Co. fail to reverse Justice Grain's decision. Inventor Bosch will have to market his magnetoes, spark plugs, et al., under a new trade mark. Other purchasers of properties under the Alien Property Act will find in the Bosch precedent a promised security from competition of former German owners...
...followed and the petroleum industry found itself in the midst of patent infringement litigation featured 'by a Texas v. Standard of Indiana suit. Therefore Standard of Indiana, Standard of New Jersey, Texas Co. and Gas Products formed a pool, commonly known as the Patent Club. In order to use any of the four basic cracking processes, independents had to get licenses from and pay royalties to the pool members. The U. S. government turned a suspicious eye toward the pool and its activities. In 1924, anti-trust proceedings were instituted against the Patent Club and 48 associated companies...