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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. George Eastman, 77, board chairman of Eastman Kodak Co.; by his own hand (pistol); in Rochester, N. Y. He left a note: "My work is done. Why wait?'' Born in Waterville, N. Y. in 1854, he started Eastman Dry Plate Co. in Rochester in 1880. First man to realize the possibilities of amateur as opposed to professional photography, he devoted himself to making cameras simple, handy, foolproof. The first Kodak appeared in 1888, contained film for 100 pictures which, when taken, were sent back (camera & all) to the Kodak factory for development. Hence the famed slogan: "You press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 21, 1932 | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

...British cotton mill. In his spare time Charles Powell of East Dids-bury likes to take pictures. This summer he went on vacation with his pretty tousle-haired fiancee to the Isle of Man. He took her picture sitting on a rock against the sunset with a cheap Kodak she had given him for a birthday present. The picture seemed very good. He enlarged it and sent it to the International Kodak Exhibition at Geneva, a contest for which the various European and U. S. subsidiaries of the U. S. Eastman Kodak Co. had contributed over $100,000 in prizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Manx Sunset | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

...were indeed amazed to come upon a little Indian girl reading TIME. Mr. McKibbin took my kodak and climbed a ladder to the level above us where the little girl lived, and snapped the enclosed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1931 | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...auditorium of the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories at Rochester, N. Y. four dozen industrialists and research engineers sat in pitch blackness. They were on tour of various industrial research laboratories and had stopped at George Eastman's kodak plant for Dr. Charles Edward Kenneth Mees to take their pictures in the dark. The room they posed in was flooded with infra-red light from an airtight, light-tight cabinet. A camera was loaded with a proper plate. The camera clicked a one-second exposure. The lights went on. While the businessmen blinked their eyes and chatted, photographers developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Infra-Red | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

...field, pipe-line and refinery employes. "In line with practice generally established . . . aiding in the relief of the unemployment situation," explained the announcement. Back in 1929, the five-day week was a sociological movement, widely publicized. Lately it has been a corporate retrench- ment, little discussed. Westinghouse and Eastman Kodak in their factories have been recent converts to the five-day week. Some Ford plants run on a five-day, some on a three-and-one-half-day schedule. But the five-day week of 1931 differs in one notable respect from the five-day week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Five Days | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

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