Word: kodaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brown, grey, maroon, blue and green bound kodaks perked their lenses through the show windows of Eastman Kodak Co. stores last week. They were vanity kodaks for the "girl graduate and the bride," said the signs. Eastman, by breaking away from black kodaks, has done what the fountain pen makers did five years ago, and the portable typewriter people more recently...
...Last week were reported the Eastman Kodak Co.'s 1927 profits-$20,142,161. President of the company is William G. Stuber, whom Governor Flem D. Sampson of Kentucky has just made a colonel on his official staff. Will Rogers, critic of U. S. mores, is a colonel on the same staff...
...opposite face of the earth, while these men gained their ways, George Eastman, head of the Eastman Kodak Co., was pursuing his second leisurely hunt* with camera and gun through the high lands of Uganda and southern Sudan. The scientific importance of his trip lay chiefly in the cinema films which, with the aid of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson,† he took of African mammals at their private affairs. Of lesser importance were the rare white rhinoceros and the more common water buck which he killed so that he might give them to the Natural History Museum at Rochester...
Next he applied his gelatine to a strip of paper, which might be rolled compactly. And that led to a new kind of camera, the Kodak (1888). Mr. Eastman invented the name by fiddling with a batch of separate letters until he put together a group that looked alluring and sounded sensible. The word is now a common noun, verb and radical in European languages. It appears in standard dictionaries...
...Eastman did not of course accomplish all this progress in photography by his sole effort. By this time he was calling on professional scientists for information and aid; and it is with "thanks to the effort of Eastman scientists," as he, with native courtesy, states in Eastman Kodak advertisements, that the science and art of photography has gone...