Winslow Act

The total amount of cash assets seized by the Alien Property Custodian, a figure excluding ships, patents, and a radio station, reached 545,000,000. Through the Winslow Act and other means, about half of the property had been returned by 1928. McHugh (ref. 52), 195 Joseph Conrad Fehr, "American and German war claims settled," American Bar Association journal, 18 (Jan 1932), 896-899, on 898. 

Historically, chemical patents have always been important in the United States. As early as 1641, Massachusetts granted a patent, the first issued on this continent, to Samuel Winslow, for a 10-year term, on a method of making salt. The first United States patent law was the Act of April 10, 1790. The first patent under this law was granted July 31, 1790, to Samuel Hopkins of Vermont for a method of making pot and pearl ashes. ... 

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