The expiration, August 14, of two of what have heretofore been considered the "controlling " patents of the McKay Sewing ...

As a rising young corporation lawyer, Louis Dembitz Brandeis helped in 1903 to put together Boston’s United Shoe Machinery Corp. A combine of the three biggest companies in the business, United held ...

Introduction, 287.--I. Violation of the Sherman Act by the United Shoe Machinery Corporation, 287.--II. Different doctrines and methods of dealing with the good trust, 292.--III. Definition and ...

AT ONE of the great Brooklyn shoe factories things went wrong one morning— a new workman broke an important part in a complicated contrivance, tying up a group of related machines. Simultaneously in ...

Shoe manufacturing was revolutionized by the lasting machine, which was patented on March 20, 1883 by inventor Jan Earnst Matzeliger. Matzeliger was born in 1852 in Paramaribo, Suriname, to a Dutch ...