Word: patents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well aware that his discovery spelled money, Steenbock pondered what to do with it. Tradition gave him three choices: he could 1) keep his university job and develop his invention on the side, as most professor-inventors do; 2) quit the university and go into business to exploit his patents; or 3) make a free gift of his patent to food manufacturers...
Background to Danger (Warner) stars George Raft and Sydney Greenstreet as opposing merchants of menace in neutral Turkey. Raft, as a patent-leathery G-man, comes into possession of a "Russian plan to invade Turkey" forged by the Nazis and intended to drive Turkey into Germany's embrace. With these hot documents the fat Gestapo agent Greenstreet would like to warm his hands. But when he gives Raft the third degree on the subject of the papers' hiding place, the G-man is rescued by a Russian agent played by the supersinister Peter Lorre...
Brother Murray Edes, who holds the record for inquiring visits to the orderly room, has a new invention to supplant his motor that revolves around the shaft--a frictionless engine that he plans to patent some day. As yet the details haven't been revealed, but the many noises emanating from A-33 give promise of something spectacular in the near future...
...there, it was Queen Elizabeth, in a plain grey dress prettied with orchids, who from the dais of Buckingham Palace's Grand Hall be stowed decorations on Empire heroes-first among them R.A.F. Wing Commander Guy Gibson, leader of dam-destroying planes over Germany. Possessor of letters patent making her one of five Councilors of State during the King's Mediterranean tour, the Queen said to Gibson: "The King has asked me to say how sorry he is not to be able to give the Victoria Cross to you personally...
...soon as expected, discovered that lithium vapor was preventing oxidation of the steel. Then it was found that a little lithium lasted a long time because it was being chemically regenerated from its own oxide by the carbon monoxide present in the fuel gas. This discovery the Patent Office refused to believe until U.S. examiners went to the little brick laboratory in Newark, saw with their own eyes how lithium worked. Then they granted broad basic patents...