Word: eastmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want of trying. McCartney had met Linda Eastman in London in 1967. A year later he was living with her in London, and he looked to her father and brother, Lee and John, fashionable, tough-minded New York show-business lawyers, for advice on Apple's chaotic affairs. Lennon, in the meantime, had met up with Allen Klein, a free-swinging wheeler-dealer who once sent out Christmas cards with this greeting: "Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, because I'm the biggest bastard in the valley...
Clumsily paraphrasing the poet at Polaroid Corp.'s annual meeting last week, Chairman Edwin Land said that "to the rest of the photographic industry, instant photography is a thing apart. To Polaroid, it is the whole of life." By "the rest" of the industry, Land meant Eastman'Kodak, which six days earlier had introduced two instant-picture cameras of its own (TIME, May 3), threatening Polaroid with its first serious competition since Land invented instant photography three decades ago. Though Kodak's entry had long been anticipated, Land viewed it as an illegal incursion on turf that...
...Forever fearful of antitrust actions, Kodak officials were privately delighted to let Polaroid start the instant business. Polaroid Founder Edwin Land has been grateful to Kodak for other reasons. In the 1930s, when Polaroid was a tiny company making light-polarizing sheets (that eventually evolved into the popular sunglasses), Eastman Kodak was among its first customers. Without that deal, there quite possibly would have been no Polaroid instant camera for Kodak to challenge last week...
After years of doing battle in separate though similar technological arenas, the two titans of the U.S. photography market finally meet in the same ring this week. Eastman Kodak Co., which fathered the snapshot almost a century ago, will show off to the press its new line of instant-picture cameras, thus offering Polaroid Corp. its first serious competition* since Edwin Land brought out the Polaroid Land Camera nearly three decades ago and ushered in the instant-photography...
Rivals promptly began lining up to chip away at Xerox's 70% chunk of the U.S. office-copier market. IBM last month introduced a third line of copiers. Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. is planning a massive sales effort for its new plain-paper VHS copiers. Last week Eastman Kodak Co. weighed in with its Ektaprint 150 series, a supersophisticated elaboration of the Ektaprint 100 machine first marketed last fall. At the touch of a few buttons, the most expensive machine in Kodak's new line arranges multipage documents and copies, collates and staples them-all at the rate...