War Expenditures: Aviation. 3 v

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Page 522 - States, is, or shall be admitted to any share or part of this contract, or to any benefit which may arise herefrom, but, under the provisions of section 116 of the Act of Congress approved March 4, 1909 (35 Stat.
Page 522 - In witness whereof, the parties hereto have executed this contract as of the day and year first above written. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, By...
Page 432 - The provision requiring subscribers to submit claims for compensation in respect to patents subsequently acquired by them to a board of arbitrators and to license each other under such patents at the rates of royalty fixed by that board might possibly be used to secure valuable inventions at unreasonable compensation. But it serves the purpose of keeping the patents of each of the subscribers open to all, and that doubtless was the purpose for which it was adopted. Its possible abuse, therefore,...
Page 11 - ... over 5,300 had been produced, including 1,600 of a type which was temporarily abandoned on account of unsatisfactory engines. Planes for advanced training purposes were produced in quantity early in 1918; up to the signing of the armistice about 2,500 were delivered. Approximately the same number was purchased overseas for training the units with the Expeditionary Force. Several new models, to be used for training pursuit pilots, are under development. Within three months after the declaration...
Page 198 - Liberty machines which, with their criminally constructed fuel tanks, offered so easy a target to the incendiary bullets of the enemy that their unfortunate pilots called this boasted achievement of our Aviation Department their
Page 432 - ... and to pay to the other subscribers the royalties, if any, to which they are entitled under the crosslicense agreement. (Art. IX, pp. 9-10.) The cross-license agreement, as appears from its principal provisions summarized above, makes available to each subscriber of the Association (Inc.) the...
Page 404 - Subscriber" agrees to pay into the treasury of the "Company" on the 10th days of January, April, July and October in each year the following sums of money, to wit: (a) On each airplane, with or without engine, required to be reported as provided, in sub-division (c) of Paragraph VI hereof, the sum of two per cent...
Page 402 - subscribers" grant, agree to grant, and cause to be granted to each other, licenses to make, use, and sell airplanes, under all airplane patents of the United States now or hereafter owned or controlled by them or any of them, or by any firm, corporation, or association owned or controlled by them, or under which they, or any of them, or any such firm, corporation, or association, have or shall have the right...
Page 22 - These manufacturers undertook the impossible task of creating a motor •which could be adapted to all classes of flying craft. It is not too much to say that our airplane program has been largely subordinated to the Liberty motor.
Page 403 - ... commercial use of an invention known to the industry to be desirable of use but not used because of lack of adaptation, or is otherwise of striking character or constitutes a radical departure from previous practice, or if either the price paid therefor or the amount expended in developing the same...