Word: zenith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scotch and sandwiches streamed into a suite in Chicago's Ambassador West Hotel for 48 hours straight last week. Inside, a dozen high-priced lawyers barely paused to refresh. When they did pause at last, patent-challenger Zenith Radio Corp. had finally pinned heavyweight champ Radio Corp. of America after eleven years of legal jujitsu. In the biggest antitrust recovery in history, Zenith settled for $10 million in its $61.7 million suit against...
Rebellion. Like Henry Ford, who broke the Selden pool of automotive patents in 1911 by refusing to pay royalties, Zenith President Eugene McDonald openly rebelled. In 1946 he stopped RCA royalty payments on radio tubes, filed a suit in Delaware charging an RCA conspiracy to monopolize the industry through patent control. In 1954 Zenith incorporated the original suit in a new one filed in Chicago, asking $16,056,000 in damages from RCA, Western Electric, Westinghouse, General Electric and 14 foreign electric companies. It charged that all had conspired with RCA to keep Zenith out of foreign markets through patent...
...trial from a final showdown for years, RCA in 1954 hired Lawyer Adlai Stevenson to get an injunction against U.S. District Judge Michael Igoe on the charge that he was biased. Stevenson lost in the U.S. Supreme Court. Igoe finally set the trial for last week. By that time Zenith had spent $2,000,000 on legal fees and gathering evidence and RCA $5,000,000. But the case did not come to trial, apparently because Zenith had gathered too much legal ammunition to fire...
...that the curare-makers shall operate in an isolated part of the forest; often they are required to refrain from sexual intercourse while a batch is being run, and women may be kept at a distance. In some tribes the work must be finished before the sun reaches the zenith (or interrupted then). Many refuse to put new curare into old bottles, insist on new containers (gourds, bamboo sections or earthenware jars...
Such liberal concepts, Hartz noted, challenged the traditional conservative concepts of the highly structured, ordered and disciplined society which had reached its zenith in the middle ages...