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The News; September 16, 2003.(News)
About 125 years ago, demand for the ``real McCoy'' automatic oiler made a fortune for its inventor, the son of a runaway slave. But Elijah McCoy and his descendants might have been far richer if he'd copyrighted the phrase, which is still in common use today to refer to an item's authenticity. Given that, our advice to young ...
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