Word: patents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Improved Patent...
...connection with the story "Patent Sesquicentennial" p. 50 (TIME, April 15), you will be interested in the following paragraph which is also quoted in an editorial on p. 447 of the April 1940 Industrial and Engineering Chemistry...
...Cartoonist Percy Crosby (Skippy) went U. S. patent No. 2,197,174 for a helmet designed to prevent brain concussions. Shaped like a Tyrolean yodeler's hat, its crown rests on powerful springs which are attached to the brim. How it works: bullet comes, crown gives, bullet is deflected, crown snaps back, war goes...
...merriest times in its history, in 1888, during an infringement suit involving men's underwear. Contested device: a reinforcing patch at the crotch to prevent splitting of the seam. Counsel for the alleged infringer waved a pair of red flannels, asked indignantly whether a patent should be permitted to take away the ancient and sacred right of wives to patch their husbands' underwear. He won his case. Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller laughed so hard he nearly fell under the bench...
Aged 22, Joan's history has been almost as rambling as the tall tales Sister Olivia claims Joan likes to tell. She was born Joan de Havilland, in Tokyo, where father de Havilland was a patent attorney. But the de Havilland sisters went to school in California...