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Nearest thing to an ideal man for this thankless job was quiet, learned, earnest, long-laboring Coordinator (now ICC chairman) Joseph B. Eastman, whose honesty is honored by railroad men, railroad-baiters and shippers alike. Last week, after seven years' study, the Coordinator's subsidy report was published. It did not make pleasant reading for railroad...
...return for the $19,500,000 cost in public funds (1935) of the Mississippi, Warrior and Illinois River systems (said the Eastman report), barge routes saved shippers less than $7,000,000. Last week the Senate-House conference committee agreed to report out the Wheeler-Lea bill, which would put inland water transportation under ICC control...
Bald, cob-nosed Designer Teague has been beautifying machine-age gadgets ever since 1928, when Eastman Kodak Co. hired him to spiffy up its then drab-looking cameras. From cameras. Teague went on to magnifying glasses, mirrors, telescopes, binoculars. Steuben glassware...
Howard Hanson: Symphony No. 2 (Eastman-Rochester Symphony, Howard Hanson conducting; Victor: 8 sides), and Roy Harris: Symphony No. 3 (Boston Symphony, Sergei Koussevitzky conducting; Victor: 4 sides). First recordings of two contemporary, respectable U. S. symphonies. Composer Hanson's is tuneful with patches of Teutonic rhetoric; Composer Harris's is dry and intricate, its ancestry Russo-Parisian...
Awed but not dizzied by all this is Tennessee Eastman's President Perley S. Wilcox ("Uncle Perley" to his employes). Now completing his forty-second year with Eastman, he has built his plant to 82 buildings, 372 acres, 5,000 workers (second to the Kodak Park Works, Rochester, N. Y.'s biggest plant). Last year his big plant produced some 50,000,000 Ibs. of cellulose acetate, of which one-half went into rayon yarn, one-eighth into Tenite I & II, the rest into film, wrapping sheets, lacquers. Gross: some $25,000,000. For Tennessee Eastman pioneering...