Word: kodak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leased by Eastman Kodak...
Seven million dollars-the largest gift to higher education since George Eastman left 14 Kodak millions to the University of Rochester in 1932-fell last week into the lap of Chicago's Northwestern University. To Northwesterners the- size of the gift was no more gratifying than the donor, the late Roger Deering of the third generation of Chicago's famed, harvester- making Deering family. Roger's grandfather, William Deering of Maine, was nearing 50 when he visited the Midwest, found his old friend Elijah Gammon struggling with throat trouble and a manufacturing concession for Marsh harvesters. Elijah...
Rochester. Scientists are traditionally supposed to be humble because they realize how much they do not know. Not at all humble is Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, longtime research director of Eastman Kodak's laboratories. Urbane, smooth Dr. Mees, who speaks four languages and knows more than any other man about photography, last week told the touring tycoons...
Last week International Nickel Co. of Canada raised its quarterly dividend from 15? to 20? a share. Irving Air Chute raised its regular dividend from 10? to 15?, declared an extra of 10?. Reporting a sharp increase in half-year profits, Eastman-Kodak voted a 25? extra in addition to a regular dividend of $1.25. But the fattest extra dividend of the week was 50? paid the 14,190 stockholders of Timken Roller Bearing Co. of Canton, Ohio. During the first six months, Timken earned $4,522,000, nearly double the profits for the same period last year...
...even other Times cameramen know what is inside Jimmy Northmore's "Magic Eye' which he hopes his superiors will patent and manufacture for exclusive Hearstpaper use. He shops for his film at a different drug store every day, admits he uses 12-exposure Kodak film, so spliced as to make 48 exposures...