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...through the house, let them gape at the wine cellar in the basement, the billiard room in the attic, the sweeping outlook across meadowlands to Mount Holyoke and Mount Tom. The press inspectors rode up and down in the self-operating house elevator, stared speculatively at the outdoor swimming pool and tennis court, strolled through the ivory-tinted living room, the pinkish dining room, the bedroom suites...
...Digest poll, as its sponsors had hoped it would, bred sharp Wet-&-Dry controversy. The Wet complaint: their vote had been split between Modification and Repeal, their real strength confused and diminished. The Drys raged more vehemently. Their charges: 1) Wet funds were financing the pool; 2) more ballots had been sent to men than to women; 3) by some inexplicable divination on the part of the poll managers, Wet families had received many ballots, Dry families none. Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals advised a New Jersey audience to vote...
What does a company do with a patented process in some basic field of its industry? Sometimes it keeps the patent to itself. Often, however, such selfishness results in endless litigation with conflicting patents secured by other companies on similar processes. Corporations sometimes agree with certain other corporations to pool patents and collect royalties instead of paying lawyers. This procedure, however, is open to protest from companies not included in the pool...
...Jersey and the willingness of the new company to make the process available to any corporation desiring it. The greater the number of companies subscribing for stock in the Patent Company, the greater the Standard royalties and the greater the conservation of petroleum. Furthermore Standard, contemplating not a patent pool but a patent ocean in which all (with the qualification noted above) may freely navigate, has averted the likelihood of protest from independents or from the Government...
...When he arrives at his office at 9:30 the architects are waiting for him with plans for the new botanical greenhouses ... an enlarged swimming pool ... a new set of roads and walks on the South Campus. All these projects will cost more than previously estimated, but surely in view of their obvious desirability the president can find the money...