Word: eastmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...race to introduce the first instant movie film, Eastman Kodak Co. last week took a quick step ahead of its rival, Polaroid Corp. Kodak showed off its new Supermatic 8 processor, in which 50 ft. of movie film can be developed in less than 13½ min. by an unskilled operator v. the 20 to 30 min. required by highly paid technicians using conventional equipment. The compact machine is roughly the size and shape of an office photocopying machine; only an hour is needed to learn...
...ACSR supported disclosure of political contributions by three companies, Eastman Kodak, ITT, and Standard Oil, while the subcommittee voted Harvard's stock for disclosure by only Standard Oil, whose gifts, it said, were of proven significance. To ask other companies to disclose their gifts would be unfair, it said, since labor unions and other large institutions sometimes make secret contributions. There were other differences...
Indeed, the big buying action on Wall Street these days is in the stocks of sound, old-line companies like Exxon, Bethlehem Steel and Du Pont. Such glamour stocks as Xerox, IBM and Eastman Kodak are still going down, partly because there is no shortage of copiers, computers or cameras. Also, many of the former highflyers pay small dividends or none at all. The standard industrial companies often pay dividends equaling 5% to 6% of the price of their stocks and so are better able to compete against other investments in an era of still lofty interest rates...
...innovative mass home builders. Pioneered in clustering houses in recreational development of New Seabury, on Cape Cod, Mass. (1962). There, also built "special interest" villages for golfers, sailors, horsemen. Also used special groupings in a year-round planned community at Middletown, Conn. Invented idea of saving open land at Eastman, N.H., vacation-home project; each landowner gives a piece of land back to community. Newest project is farthest out: a religiously oriented, back-to-the-land community on 1,300-acre farm in Grantham...
...treat patients' ills is a doctor and is undeniably practicing medicine. But is he therefore a doctor of medicine and entitled to put the magical letters M.D. after his name? Yes, contends Richard Oliver, 43, a physician who practices in the little (pop. 6,000) Georgia town of Eastman. No, says the Composite State Board of Medical Examiners, which licenses physicians to practice in Georgia...