Word: kodaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousand U. S. banks will be able to check up their depositors' withdrawals by photography before this year's end. Eastman Kodak Company's new Recordak apparatus (rental, $300 a year, capacity 16,000 checks per $5 in films) will provide conclusive proof that checks have really been paid. The Eastman Co. convinced itself of the usefulness and salability of the machine before it incorporated Recordak Corporation for $1,000,000 last fortnight...
...will be queried on engineering or scientific projects they have conceived or executed. A committee composed of President Samuel W. Stratton of M.I.T., Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics Edward Pearson Warner, Vice President Elisha Lee of the Pennsylvania Railroad, General Manager Frank W. Lovejoy of the Eastman Kodak Co., Vice President Frank B. Jewett of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and others will then select the most promising youth, who will enter M.I.T. next autumn on a four-year scholarship given by the Youth's Companion...
President George Eastman of the Eastman Kodak Co. last week received replies from the 1,000 businessmen whose opinions he had recently asked on the 13-month calendar he advocates. Practically every one approved the calender. The United States Chamber of Commerce national counselors in conference at West Baden, Ind., a month ago approved it; the transportation committee of the League of Nations has approved it. Quite possibly the legislatures of important countries will vote its adoption. Its chief obstacles, apparently, are the customs of various religions...
...Science Killed the Navies." So said Dr. Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, research director of the Eastman (Kodak) Laboratories of Rochester, N. Y. "A modern navy is a burden too heavy to be borne. . . . the advance of science will make it impossible tomorrow. One of the sanest of small nations? Denmark?already has decided to give up the idea that it can defend itself and ... is ... therefore, reasonably safe...
...perfect the apparatus required three years of experimenting by Dr. Stanhope Bayne-Jones of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Clifton M. Tuttle of Eastman Kodak Co. research laboratories. The pictures they secured were like those of growing cancer cells recently reported from London (TIME, July 25). What had taken three minutes to show had taken 44 hours to photograph...