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...inventor of Kodachrome film, a concert pianist who, with Fellow Musician Leopold Godowsky, spent his free hours trying to develop a high-quality, easy-to-use color film, after 20 years of experimenting came up with the first three-color transparency in 1935, an invention they sold to Eastman Kodak, thereby ushering in photography's golden era; of a stroke; in Martha's Vineyard, Mass...
...such disparate items as colonial furniture and shower curtains, for air conditioners and suntan lotions, and for such soft goods as sportswear, bathing suits, children's dresses, lingerie and men's pajamas. In Germany, of all places, the sales of U.S. photo equipment-notably the new Kodak Instamatic camera-have jumped nearly 300% in the past year...
...what appears to be a 50-ton egg on a nest of plastic in the tops of metal trees. Johnson's Wax has suspended a huge gold clam over a blue pool inside six slender white pylons that rise high and flare into unearthly petals. Eastman Kodak has built a plaza under an undulating roof of thin-shell concrete that plays hide-and-seek with geometry, now duncing up into conical pinnacles, now forming a hole so that real and artificial rains can pour through onto Sculptor Harry Bertoia's metal flowers below. People can walk...
...showed that corporations were earning on the average of 20% more this year than in 1963. General Motors' earnings of $536 million were the highest for any company in any three-month period in business history, and huge profit gains were reported by giants as varied as Eastman Kodak (up 25%), U.S. Steel (up 72%) and the Monsanto Co. (up 84%). Retail sales marched upward, and so did construction contracts. Auto and steel production continued at record or near-record levels...
...maid with the family wash in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce. When Chemical Engineer Frank Manley, 32, and his wife fell in love with life in Laos, he sold their return airline tickets to set up a travel agency. Now, three years later, he has a thriving agency, sells Kodak cameras and International Harvester tractors on the side...