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...Five of the companies are Control Data Corp., Eastman Kodak Co., Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., Norton Simon Inc. and Time Inc.; each has an 18% interest. The sixth, Bradford Computer & Systems Inc., has 5%. The remaining 5% of capital was donated by the six corporations...
...shippers are abandoning U.S. docks entirely in favor of ports at Saint John, New Brunswick, and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Canadian laws permit railroads and shipping companies to offer combined freight rates at substantial discounts; such discounts are prohibited in the U.S. Even such distinctively U.S. products as Playboy magazine, Kodak film, and Michigan beans (which in a later incarnation are known as Boston baked beans) now depart from Canadian ports for their worldwide destinations...
...Even so, Kodak is painfully embarrassed at finding itself so far behind in instant photography. Convinced for years that Polaroid could never find a camera inexpensive enough to tap the mass market, Kodak's chiefs were finally toppled from their complacency by the success of the Polaroid Swinger in the mid-'60s, and they ordered a hurry-up research project into an alternate system of instant photography. Land was no longer simply an ingenious inventor and customer; he was an enlarging and possibly troublesome competitor. Kodak executives were surprised by the high quality of the color prints produced...
...Kodak reports that it is pouring "very substantial funds" into instant photography. Land says that Kodak researchers still "don't know where they're going" with an instant process. Some stock analysts, however, believe that the company plans to market its own instant film process for use in Polaroid cameras as early as 1973. These experts are convinced that any camera buff-even a Polaroid owner-would automatically have faith in a new yellow-box product. Meanwhile, there is much speculation that Kodak and Polaroid are racing each other to introduce -some time in the next few years...
Certainly Kodak is eager to make and market instant-photo cameras, but that will not be easy. Polaroid employs no fewer than 25 patent attorneys, who have erected a blockade of some 1,000 patents around the Polaroid process. Though rights to the original Land inventions in instant photography have long since expired, no would-be competitor has been able to jump ahead of those that are still tightly protected. Thus, to an astonishing degree, Polaroid has no direct competition...