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President George M. Eastman of the Eastman Kodak Co., last week again assumed championship of calendar reform...
...Eastman, businessman, has found the Gregorian division of years irksome. Statistics at present are never exactly comparable. Therefore Mr. Eastman has championed the International Fixed Calendar, devised by Moses B. Cotsworth of England, and considered well worth adoption by a committee of inquiry of the League of Nations...
This Cotsworth-Eastman calendar would divide the year into 13 equal months of 28 days each, each day numbered and named exactly the same. The 13th month would be called Sol and would go between June and July. The 365th day would be called "year-day" and be numbered December 29. In leap year the 366th day would be numbered June...
Kodak. "If it isn't an Eastman, it isn't a Kodak," says the Eastman Kodak Co., Kodaking as it goes. Recently the Federal Trade Commission, a federal investigating body, the precise scope of whose authority no-one has determined, objected to Eastman's recent purchase of three laboratories for the making of cinema films. The output of these three laboratories was greater than that of all other laboratories east of Chicago; the Commission alleged that they would result in throttling competition, ordered the Eastman Co. to dispose of them. The Eastman Co. refused. The Supreme Court endorsed the refusal...
When they return, after their week in Manhattan, many of these young singers will be heard in the Eastman Theatre. For every Thursday afternoon and evening, it has been provided that the theatre leave off cinema, give over to music. Since the hall is owned by the University, programs can be presented to benefit both audience and performer. Thirty-four hundred people may be seated there. So uncommercial is the theatre that even War-tax is not necessary...