Word: ansco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really controlled by Swiss and other non-enemy interests, asked the United Nations International Court of Justice at The Hague to decide who really owns General Aniline. It is a rich prize: under U.S. stewardship, New York-based General Aniline has grown into a vast chemical and camera-supply (Ansco) empire with assets of $163 million and sales last year of $133 million...
...from products that were not even in existence five years ago. President Percy is now eying General Aniline & Film Corp., the German-controlled firm confiscated as alien property in World War II, which the U.S. Government is about to offer for sale. Percy wants the company particularly for its Ansco film division, so that Bell & Howell, which lacks a movie film line, can compete on more equal terms with Eastman Kodak Co., which sells both cameras and film. Says Percy: "As things are now, every time we sell a camera, we make a film customer for our competitors...
John H. Hilldring, 59, was made president of Manhattan's General Aniline & Film Corp. (Ansco), the Swiss-controlled chemical firm seized by the U.S. in World War II on suspicion of Nazi domination. Hilldring replaces ex-T.W.A. President Jack Frye, 50, friend of Elliott Roosevelt who got $97,000 a year and who will go to work on "a new aviation development" of his own. Hilldring, a career Army officer, rose to major general in 1942. During the war, he was the Army's personnel chief. After the war he served as Assistant Secretary of State...
...Users of 35-mm. color film made by General Aniline & Film Corp.'s Ansco Division, Kodak's smaller rival, are not charged in advance for developing, may send their rolls back to the factory or to an independent finisher...
Furthermore, Brigadoon on the stage was a flash of tartans and gay Argyles; on the screen the scenes are smeared with a brownish heather mixture of Ansco Color...