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...Rich Harvest. Many a little invention has launched a big industry; one out of eight U.S. businesses is a company that got its start with a single new product. Color film, invented by two New York musicians and first sold by Kodak in 1935, has grown into a $500 million annual business in the U.S. alone. As simple an idea as the aerosol can, first used to spray insecticides during World War II, has puffed itself into a 600 million-can-a-year trade, spraying everything from athlete's-foot powder to instant starch. Even as insignificant an item...
...Eastman Kodak...
...find ways to eliminate such troubles, mental health programs headed by full-or part-time psychiatrists are operated by such companies as Eastman Kodak, Metropolitan Life Insurance, International Business Machines, Du Pont, New York Telephone Co. and American Cyanamid. Hundreds of other companies hire consulting psychologists to plumb their workers' difficulties. The number is still small compared with the total of corporations-partly because highly paid psychiatrists are difficult to attract to industry-but it is growing. U.S. Steel is about to set up a fulltime program, "as a natural step in the development of a medical program...
...take a look." There followed a nine-month committee survey, which reported appalling conditions. A few months later, Ike called in Major General Edward Curtis, Army airman in World Wars I and II (Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Force, Europe), and then (as now) a vice president of Eastman Kodak Co., told him to get going on an analysis of the problems and to bring back the answers. By May 1957> "Ted" Curtis' report was in. Recommendation: absorption of the old CAA into a new, independent Federal Aviation Agency, with combined military and civil traffic control in the hands...
Help from the Clinic. In Manhattan, Consolidated Edison, Standard Oil (NJ.) and others have joined to underwrite a local industrial alcoholism clinic for their employees. Eastman Kodak and International Harvester have their own in-plant programs for finding alcoholics, also contribute to community clinics for treating them. Allis-Chalmers has set up an alcoholics control team of welfare workers, psychiatrist, attorney, "problem counselor" and "alcoholic counselor...