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...Govemment $246,914,156 2. IBM $74,109,498 3. Ford $55,562,975 4. Mobil $53,036,556 5. Exxon $41,937,361 6. Quebec Hydro-Electric $31,354,629 7. GM $30,614,761 8. Eastman Kodak $26,824,948 9. Continental Oil $22,064,320 10. General Reinsurance...
Over the two-year period of heated debate on the morality and justifications for Harvard's South Africa-related investments, IBM remained Harvard's number two investment, and Ford and Eastman Kodak were dropped from the top ten. Harvard decreased its investments in Ford because of a downturn it predicted in the auto industry and demoted Eastman Kodak to an "average investment" over the two-year period because of the costs of the company's stock. The principal reasons for the movement of the two stocks were not, Walter M. Cabot, deputy University treasurer, says, considerations of the companies South...
Adams' photographic career began with the first trip he took to Yosemite, with his father in June 1916. He brought along a Kodak Brownie box camera. The trip was "a tremendous event," he recalls. From that moment, the Sierra?"that great earth gesture"?dominated Adams' life, changed his vocation, gave him his subjects. He was married there, to fellow Californian Virginia Best, a marriage that has lasted 51 years. One of his two children was born there, and not a year has passed since 1916 without his making at least one return visit. Often the visits have been elaborate...
...page opinion, Chief Judge Irving R. Kaufman of the appeals court said that the fact that Kodak dominated its field was no reason to penalize it for having taken the lead with the 110 system. "The mere possession of monopoly power does not ipso facto condemn a market participant," Kaufman wrote. Moreover, he added, "the first firm, even a monopolist, to design a new camera format has a right to the lead time that follows from its success...
...Kodak officials were naturally delighted with the decision, though their court troubles may not be over. Berkey may try to appeal Kaufman's ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, or it can return to the district court with the part, of its suit that Kaufman said must be retried (this involved alleged abuses by Kodak of its dominant position in the photographic-paper market...