"Trade name" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... breath. "True, they're advertised to retail at thirty-five dollars. And stores that sell them at that rate make a profit of fifty per cent. The regional supply house, before them, knocks down from forty to sixty per cent, on the wholesale price. Then the trade name distributor makes at least fifty per cent on the sales to ...
— Subversive • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... {bletcherous} communications protocol widely favored at commercial shops that don't know any better. The official IBM definition is "that which binds blue boxes together." See {fear and loathing}. It may not be irrelevant that {Blue Glue} is the trade name of a 3M product that is commonly used to hold down the carpet squares to the removable panel floors common in {dinosaur pen}s. A correspondent at U. Minn. reports that the CS department there has about 80 bottles of the ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... hyphenated because they come from Germany. The name given above is no more of a mouthful than "a-square-plus-two-a-b-plus-b-square" or "Third Assistant Secretary of War to the President of the United States of America." The trade name of this dye is Brilliant Congo, but while that is handier to say it does not mean anything. Nobody but an expert in dyes would know what it was, while from the formula name any chemist familiar with such compounds could draw its picture, tell how it would behave and what it was made from, ...
— Creative Chemistry - Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries • Edwin E. Slosson
... phencyclidine (PCP, angel dust, hog), phencyclidine analogues (PCE, PCPy, TCP), and others (psilocybin, psilocyn). Hashish is the resinous exudate of the cannabis or hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Heroin is a semisynthetic derivative of morphine. Mandrax is a trade name for methaqualone, a pharmaceutical depressant. Marijuana is the dried leaf of the cannabis or hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Methaqualone is a pharmaceutical depressant, referred to as mandrax in Southwest Asia and Africa. Narcotics are drugs ...
— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... S. America, Mexico, etc. Snowy Egret Venezuela, S. America, Mexico, etc. Scarlet Ibis Tropical South America. "Green" Ibis Species not recognizable by its trade name. Herons, generally All unprotected regions. Marabou Stork Africa. Pelicans, all species All unprotected regions. Bustard Southern Asia, Africa. Greater Bird of Paradise New Guinea; Aru Islands. Lesser Bird ...
— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday |
