Word: kodak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other two assistants are Michael C. Monroe, who served on Nixon's campaign staff, and Leonard S. Zartman, an attorney formerly with Eastman Kodak Company...
Often, white executives pool their assistance. One successful instance is Rochester Business Opportunities Corp., which grew out of a proposal made by Eastman Kodak. R.B O.C. provides technical expertise in everything from plant layout to accounting, has set up a free night class in business management at a local college. So far the organization has helped 24 Negroes to start businesses. Xerox teamed up with R.B.O.C. and a militant Negro organization named FIGHT to establish a Negro-owned company to manufacture transformers and metal stampings. Xerox will buy $500,000 worth of them yearly...
...department, to become president. Now Seymour takes full charge of a shop that, thanks to Strouse, is not about to lose its No. 1 ranking. Billings have more than doubled since Strouse was named president in 1955, and currently exceed $600 million. With blue-chip clients that include Eastman Kodak, Ford, Pan Am, Standard Brands and Liggett & Myers, J. Walter Thompson is also busily building sales for about 800 smaller companies in the U.S. and 27 other nations...
...Eastman Kodak reported a record second quarter, 14% up despite the new surtax and higher costs. First-quarter earnings were restated as $65.7 million, down $5.5 million from previous figures, due to the surtax. Eastman spokesmen said that "profit margins held up well in the face of rising costs of silver and other materials and in creasing wage rates. The tax surcharge, however, had a decidedly adverse effect on the rate of net earnings...
...scrawny, drab, sassy, ordinary. He is caught up in a Jell-O ad, in which a snatch of conversation and a glimpse of beaming faces around the dinner table capture the mood and moment of a young soldier home on furlough. He is washed in nostalgia as a Kodak spot scans a lifetime by focusing on a greying couple as they rummage through old snapshots. Says Adman David Ogilvy: "The consumer isn't a moron she is your wife." Adwoman Mary Wells, president of Wells, Rich, Greene, sounds the credo of the new uncommercial makers: "You have to talk person...