Word: patents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quislings. Prime Minister Churchill had been at some pains to demonstrate that the political policy in North Africa was of American devising. Although that policy is still far from patent, Franklin Roosevelt attempted to assure his critics that the French people, and the people of all Axis-conquered nations, will have a free choice in their postwar government. Said he: "The world can rest assured that this total war ... is not being carried on for the purpose or even with the remotest idea of keeping Quislings or Lavals in power anywhere on this earth...
...patent fact that the United Nations as yet have no complete military accord, much less a postwar plan, the President gave his own answer: The United Nations will stay united, and no Nazi propaganda to split them can turn the trick...
...slowly narrowed the big industries in which Thurman Arnold could move. He shifted his strategy, attacked trusts for their sins against defense, smashed Hydra-headed I. G. Farbenindustrie's patent hold on the U.S. But soon he was back in essential war industries, striking out for his ideal of free pricing. The Army & Navy began to complain of his robust interference. Thurman Arnold went right ahead building up a case against railroads for rate fixing; Attorney General Francis Biddie turned thumbs down. Arnold's ride as a trust buster was over...
...relieve DFD's volunteers of their financial burden, a unique fund-raising campaign was launched last week. Brain child of Patent Broker James M. Austin, who has donated some $10,000 to war charities in the name of his famed fox terrier, Ch. Nornay Saddler, the War Dog Fund hopes to enlist as many of the nation's 20,000,000 dogs as possible into an honorary K-9 Home Guard. For $1, a contributor's dog receives the rank of private or seaman, and so on upwards. Some Park Avenue generals or admirals...
Life Is Real. In Washington, a patent was awarded to Charles T. Jacobs for a device that keeps the ice in a cocktail shaker from diluting the "dividend." In Des Moines, the Iowa legislature voted to protect ladies in sailboats from getting splashed by making it unlawful for a motorboat to pass a sailboat to the windward...