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...which had watched the railroads writhing under overcapitalization, this sort of financing looked all too familiar. Wrote Chairman Joseph B. Eastman: "It seems to be a case where ... the vendors, the promoters and the bankers will all be liberally compensated . . . and the investing public will be left holding most...
...wrote "to bring about a cultural cooperation and understanding between the highschool, college and community cho ruses of our cities and their symphony orchestras [which] are frequently too remote socially from their community." Composer Harris wrote his symphony last winter, had part of it performed and broadcast at an Eastman festival in Rochester last spring. Cleveland got first crack at the whole work because Artur Rodzinski, conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, is a friend of Roy Harris. A symphony in title only, the long work is a five-move ment setting of U. S. songs, with two dance-tune interludes...
...instead of light beams, it discloses details (of germs, chemicals, etc.) 20 or more times finer than can be seen with optical microscopes (TIME, Oct. 28). Fortnight ago its beams cleared up another dark corner. In Rochester, tart, smart, British-born Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, head of research at Eastman Kodak Co., announced it had upset old notions of how silver is distributed in photographic films...
When a film is developed, silver atoms clump together in tiny islands. It used to be assumed that these clumps were a grainy, cokelike mass. It was just an assumption, because no ordinary microscope could penetrate the clumps. In the Eastman laboratories, Researcher C. E. Hall made electron pictures magnifying the silver islands 25,000 times. Then it was seen that they were composed of tangled, thin strands of silver, some of them only a few atoms thick. "The developed grains," said Dr. Mees. "resemble masses of seaweed rather than coke...
...individuals. The majority of the voting power in the average large corporation is in the hands of not much over 1% of the shareholders. But some of the biggest and best-known corporations are exceptions (i.e., widely held, without visible centralized control): A. T. & T., Anaconda, Bethlehem Steel, Eastman Kodak, General Electric, Goodyear, R. C. A., U. S. Steel, Pennsylvania Railroad...