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Bald, cob-nosed Designer Teague has been beautifying machine-age gadgets ever since 1928, when Eastman Kodak Co. hired him to spiffy up its then drab-looking cameras. From cameras. Teague went on to magnifying glasses, mirrors, telescopes, binoculars. Steuben glassware...
Toward the close of World War I big Eastman Kodak Co. got scared. Low and uncertain were its supplies of methanol (wood alcohol), indispensable solvent of the cellulose nitrate from which photographic film was made. When peace came, Eastman set about making its wood alcohol supply secure. In doing so, it unwittingly became a pioneer in the infant field of U. S. plastics...
Awed but not dizzied by all this is Tennessee Eastman's President Perley S. Wilcox ("Uncle Perley" to his employes). Now completing his forty-second year with Eastman, he has built his plant to 82 buildings, 372 acres, 5,000 workers (second to the Kodak Park Works, Rochester, N. Y.'s biggest plant). Last year his big plant produced some 50,000,000 Ibs. of cellulose acetate, of which one-half went into rayon yarn, one-eighth into Tenite I & II, the rest into film, wrapping sheets, lacquers. Gross: some $25,000,000. For Tennessee Eastman pioneering...
Consumer Goods Stocks: Sears, Roebuck climbed 3%, steady-yield A. T. & T. 4%. Woolworth, with its big British and German subsidiaries likely to be war-slugged dropped 8%. Eastman Kodak dropped 7% apparently because investors connected Kodaks with beach parties, forgot Eastman's chemical and plastics business, forgot that armies use cameras...
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