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...soft-drink machine, Captain Lloyd K. Rudd and Sergeant K. Cyrus Melikian developed an automatic dispenser that uses a quick-frozen concentrate called Kwik-Kafe. The partners grossed $14 million in 1955, have 700 employees and 250 licensed distributors servicing companies throughout the U.S. and Canada; e.g., Eastman Kodak Co. has 100 machines which sell 280,000 cups a month to workers in its Rochester plant...
...hotel proprietress who uncomprehendingly scalds him in the bath ("Honorable tepid bath . . . could not have been more than 113°''). There is a geisha who saves the hotel's honor by sacrificing her own ("I whispered only these words: seventy-eight yen fifty . . . It was the price of Kodak No. 3A. anastigmatic lens, shutter for both time and instantaneous exposures"). Time has retouched Author Raucat's Japan without cropping any essentials in his cultural snapshots. Few writers have probed more skillfully behind the deep bow and the polite smile for that web of obligations which keep the Japanese in a fine...
...month revenue at $690 million, with a $32 million net that was a whopping 172% better than 1954, Crucible Steel did even better in the percentage race, with nine-month sales of $172 million, a $9,000,000 profit, 434% higher than last year's poor earnings. Eastman Kodak President Albert K. Chapman showed a pretty picture to stockholders: he reported new highs in sales and earnings, with a volume of $487 million, up 13%, earnings of $58 million, up 24% over last year. Other record breakers: United Air Lines, with record earnings of $10 million, up 19%; Continental...
...Reason: unpublicized gestures by a large segment of U.S. business to replace or repair flood-ruined merchandise free of charge or at big discounts. Among the firms helping out: drugmakers Eli Lilly, McKesson & Robbins, Bristol-Myers, Johnson & Johnson, food processors Birds-Eye, National Biscuit Co., Pepsi-Cola, cameramakers Eastman Kodak, Agfa, Bell & Howell...
...Kodak Request Performance (Wed. 8 p.m., NBC). Charles Bickford in The Woman at Fog Point...