Word: kodak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With color photographs accounting for 30% of the market last year, U.S. companies had better film, new lines of inexpensive cameras for color fans, including a Kodak "Starflash" selling for as little as $8.50. As usual, the biggest news was the hot rivalry between German and Japanese cameramakers, which will make Americans the world's luckiest camera fans. From the Germans, whose 1956 U.S. sales ($8,600,000) were 14% of their total production, came subtle refinements of a product that dominated the world market for 30 years. From the Japanese, whose 1956 U.S. sales ($7,000,000) were...
...succeed retiring Oveta Gulp Hobby. He set to work with less fanfare, more success, preaching a doctrine that is the Eisenhower answer to the Fair Deal: the G.O.P. is not opposed to spending money for worthwhile welfare projects. Though softspoken and retiring, Folsom, when treasurer of Eastman Kodak and chairman of the Committee for Economic Development, learned to be suave enough to counter pressure groups, courageous enough to fight against more con servative colleagues for programs that he thinks are necessary, e.g., direct federal aid for school construction...
Such specialization would inevitably throw up industrial giants. A combine of Volkswagen and British Motors, say, might dominate auto manufacture in a large part of the world. A combination of German camera manufacturers and British film makers might produce a colossus rivaling Eastman Kodak. This would not only make for better yet cheaper products and vastly expanded trade, but would help solve one of Europe's fundamental social and economic problems. In most European nations today, increases in real wages are blocked by the fear that they might make exports more expensive and less competitive. In a common European...
...Scanner represented a major breakthrough for Springdale and Eastman Kodak engineers who labored jointly on the project for ten years. An electronic "computer," it automatically transmutes color transparencies (Kodachrome, Ektachrome, etc.) into four separate negatives (one for each color) from which engravings or lithographic plates are made for four-color printing. Other Springdale firsts include an aluminum-backed letterpress plate, an internal lockup plate cylinder, a high-speed bindery, and the "balanced light"illuminator...
...income from royalties and Government contracts since 1947 to make its research program selfsupporting. Thousands of patents developed by Bell Labs may now be used by other companies without charge, as a result of the trustbusting consent decree signed last January by A. T. & T. and Western Electric. Eastman Kodak estimates that at least one-third of 1,800 basic studies published by its researchers have benefited industry as a whole...