Word: kodak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kodak...
...half a dozen companies weighed in with stock splits and higher dividends. Rocket enginemaker Thiokol Chemical Corp., drugmaker Chas. Pfizer and Colgate-Palmolive split three for one, Lily-Tulip Cup two for one. Eastman Kodak, whose stock has nearly doubled in value, to $152.50 a share in the last two years, voted a new share of stock for each one held, then tacked another 9? per share onto its dividend. With that kind of news last week, who could blame anyone for buying a share of U.S. industry...
...plus much-improved wash-and-wear cloth. The new idea is to bring out improved synthetics every year in a campaign of planned obsolescence. This season alone, chemical and textilemen are introducing more than a dozen new synthetics. Each one is tailored to a special job. For example, Eastman Kodak's Tennessee Eastman Co. has launched Kodel, which will blend with wool or synthetics to produce wash-and-wear flannels. Dow Chemical Co. has recently brought out Zefran, another wool-like synthetic to be woven into coats, suits, dresses and sweaters...
Super-Glue. Eastman Chemical Products, a subsidiary of Eastman Kodak Co., has developed a new adhesive that will glue together almost any combination of substances, e.g., wood and steel, is so strong that a single drop can support a 5,000-lb. car on a rig. Unaffected by heat or cold, the Eastman 910 Adhesive sets rapidly without additives or heating...
...Eastman Kodak...