Word: kodak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defense uses 2,739 Ib. of aluminum to Farnsworth Telephone & Radio Co. (jukebox castings), 8,787 Ib. to 0. D. Jennings Co. (coin machines), 17,199 Ib. to Mills Novelty Co. (coin machines), 5,613 Ib. to Haywood Wakefield Co. (railroad-coach seat parts), 3,962 Ib. to Eastman Kodak Co. (Kodak parts), 3,149 Ib. to Filtex Corp. (vacuum-cleaner castings...
...Eastman Kodak Co. last week introduced an improved method of printing color photographs direct from color transparencies. Up to now making color prints has involved three separate operations, three separate negatives, has cost the amateur about $2 per 2¼ by 3¼ in. picture. Most color photographers have been content with kodachromes, which are not prints at all but transparencies which must be held up to the light or projected on a screen to be seen...
...another corporation will have joined Reynolds Metals and the U.S. Government in competing with Alcoa. This must come as a blow to 0PM Economist Grenville Ross Holden, who has fought aluminum expansion plans (unless they were Alcoa's) all along the line. Young Holden, who left Eastman Kodak to handle aluminum and magnesium matters for OPM, admitted to the Truman Committee last month (TIME, May 26) that he had no special knowledge of aluminum, and also refused to give any good reason why expansion plans of Bohn Aluminum & Brass had been blocked...
...Optical glass made without silica (sand or quartz)-"almost as revolutionary," says Eastman Kodak Co., "as if someone had discovered how to make steel without iron." It is compounded of three rare metals: tantalum, tungsten, lanthanum...
...Eastman Kodak Co. broke its tradition of technically trained presidents last week, switched instead to a lawyer: young (49), handsome, Nebraska-born Thomas Jean Hargrave. As vice president and general counsel, Lawyer Hargrave has been known as a shrewd, steady, retiring executive who got along equally well with obscure employes and socialite friends. Rochester guessed two reasons for his promotion: 1) Eastman's new policy of pushing younger men to the top; 2) a decision by Eastman directors that - in times when war and Government were big factors in corporate affairs - a lawyer would do better than a technical...