Word: kodak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wright, who pitched for the State of Rhode Island at the national softball tourney at Chicago in 1940 (won by Rochester Kodak), never allowed more than two runs in any of the six games. Shortstop Al Pytko, of the same team, proved to be perhaps the best leadoff man of the tourney, and Ash Carter took care of the league's most difficult catching assignment in handling Wright...
...Eastman Kodak Co.: a 48-inch telephoto lens, the biggest Eastman has ever built, which can take clear pictures at ten miles...
...biggest molecule known to man* is much too tiny to be seen, even under a microscope. But X rays and photography can make molecules dimly visible. Dr. Maurice L. Huggins, a chemist at the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories, has produced this rare phenomenon-a photograph of a molecule...
...Shriver, Regional Property Control Officer at Rome, reported home that 40 American firms with Roman investments representing some $30,000,000 had spent the whole war in Rome in the best of health. The firms included'' American Express, Otis Elevator, International Business Machines, General Electric, Eastman Kodak, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Brothers and a dog track...
...Belgian-born Baekeland invented Bakelite (oxybenzyl-methylenglycolanhydride) - the first successful, noninflammable, synthetic solid. He got his start in 1880 when, as the youngest student at the University of Ghent, he developed Velox paper, a photographic milestone which killed tintypes and netted him a reputed $1,000,000 from Eastman Kodak. Baekeland made possible the "improbable sandwich" (plywood) by his work in 1912 on a synthetic resin filler. He was also honored for : separation of cadmium and copper, oxidation of hydrochloric acid under light, dissociation of nitrate of lead, industrial electrolysis of alkali chlorids...