...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 3955729 | Carrier bag for attachment to upright handlebars of bicycle A carrier bag for attachment to a bicycle comprises an enclosure of semi-flexible material and a substantially rigid, three-dimensional frame received within the enclosure, the frame including a pair of spaced-apart legs of generally inverted J-shape posi... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3934631 | Clothes bag and suspension hanger therefor A clothes bag and hanger is provided for vertical suspension of the bag from a supporting member. The hanger comprises a closed loop frame formed with a circumferential channel which opens radially outward. A hook-form hanger element is also formed with t... | 01/27/1976 |