Word: kodak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...touched off the dispute with Antitrust when it ruled that Eastman Kodak Co. may sign Fair-Trade contracts with independent retailers, even though these retailers compete with Kodak's own retail stores. Nobody was more surprised at FTC's decision than the trustbusters. Only a month ago Eastman agreed to drop Fair-Trade pricing on Kodachrome and Kodacolor film after the Justice Department brought an antitrust suit against Eastman. One of the three charges was that Eastman sold through its own retail outlets in illegal competition with price-fixed Eastman film sold through independent stores. Thus, while...
...Wayne as vice president of a Pearl River, N.Y. bank and Joan Lorring as his giggling wife. Like all TV investigations of small-town U.S.A., it is suffused in the rosy, nostalgic glow more common to the Gay Nineties than the 20th century. Filmed in color by sponsor Eastman Kodak Co., Norby finds its humor in an uncritical succession of minor disasters for Hero Wayne: he gets his arm caught in the lining of his sleeve; he shakes hands with a statue instead of a friend; he promptly breaks a desk he has been warned to take good care...
Until last week, the millions of amateur photographers who use Eastman Kodak Co.'s Kodachrome and Kodacolor films had no choice about where to have their films developed. They always had to send them to one of nine Eastman Kodak processing plants. Many a photographer complained about the time it took. Independent photo-finishing firms also objected to being frozen out of Eastman's big color-processing business...
...that the door has opened for competitors to enter the Kodachrome and Kodacolor finishing business, some shops thought they could cut 50^ off Eastman's developing charge. With fair-trade restrictions off, cut-rate photo shops expect to cut the price of Kodak color film...
...Users of 35-mm. color film made by General Aniline & Film Corp.'s Ansco Division, Kodak's smaller rival, are not charged in advance for developing, may send their rolls back to the factory or to an independent finisher...