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...days later, HUAC members, spurred on by first-term California Congressman Richard Nixon, called Eastman Kodak to check on the film's emulsion numbers. They got bad news: the film could not have been manufactured before 1945, which meant that Chambers must be lying. Furious, Nixon phoned Chambers to demand an explanation. But minutes later, Kodak called back to apologize for its mistake: the film could indeed have been made in 1938. "Poor Chambers," said a relieved Nixon. "Nobody ever believes him at first...
...with the Sure Shot, a highly popular $100 pocket camera that automatically focuses itself by using an infra-red beam to measure the distance to the subject. Then in 1982 came the $60 Snappy 20, an easy-to-load 35-mm model designed to compete with Kodak's Instamatics...
...worked eight hours a day, but because I was in France it didn't feel like work," says Mark A. Hurwitz '85, who worked for Kodak's Paris branch last summer. "I thought the whole time I was on vacation...
...study to be released as a book in March, comes after more than a year of research by Eckstein's Lexington consulting firm, Data Resources Inc. Nine major corporations sponsored the study- AT&T, BEthleham Steel, Burlington Industries, DuPont, Eastman Kodak, Ford, Goodyear, John Deere, and Texaco...
Things are now beginning to look better for Kodak. Sales began picking up in October and November, and analysts estimate that U.S. Christmas business was some 10% better than in 1981. Chairman Chandler insists that the firm "bottomed out" of its slump in 1983 and will soon resume growing at its normally brisk pace. "We know we are capable of performing much better than we have," says he. Once Kodak's new products begin arriving, he believes, the memories of last year's troubles will begin to fade. -By John Greenwald...