Word: kodaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, 46, was brought from England by George Eastman, whose Eastman Kodak Co. dominates the world's photography industry because Mr. Eastman at the very beginning of his business career went to scientists for help. Dr. Mees' large Eastman staff has made purely scientific research into the chemistry of colloids (gelatine, cellulose, rubber, etc.), which industry is not yet using as extensively as it might...
...Pont. Somebody in recent stock trading days has been buying Paramount-Famous-Lasky stock. That somebody, it became clear last week, was affiliated with E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., which among its multifarious investments controls Du Pont-Pathe Film Mfg. Co. (Eastman Kodak rival). So the inference gained credence in Wall Street that du Fonts would soon be on Paramount-Famous-Lasky's directorate...
...operate it. Color photography is still imperfect; not all the primary colors can be made to go into the eye of a camera and come out lifelike but such as it is, it now comes within the scope of all who have the price of a Ciné Kodak and a roll of Kodacolor. In the hand Kodacolor looks like any other film; under the microscope it looks like corduroy ribbon. The tiny corrugations are microscopic lenses, made of the film substance, running the length of the film, 559 to the inch. Different from the lens of eye glass...
...seem to devote more than a proportionate amount of space to boosting the stock of Eastman Kodak Co., as witness your several lengthy stories of the phenomenal rise in the business world of George Eastman and his Kodaks; without, at the same time deigning to give even the briefest possible mention to Ansco, which, I understand, held most of the original patents and processes upon which the present Photographic Industry is based; nor have you ever, by the very least typographical impress, even so much as given a fact-hungry list of subscribers, newsstandbuyers, Junior Leaguers, et al., the faintest...
...floor, however, convention delegates look just like so many everyday citizens assembled to compare calmly, discuss intelligently and express independently their individual opinions as to who should be President of the U. S. Next week, Kansas Citizens may expect to see George Eastman, the grey, lean, bespectacled Kodak man, moving about the town. He is a delegate-at-large from New York. Leading the New York delegation is distinguished-looking Charles Dewey Hilles who was President Taft's secretary and later a big insurance man who felt "too poor" to accept proffered Ambassadorships. Mr. Hilles clings to the Coolidge...