Word: market
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Kodak plunged into the instant market two years ago, it seemed to have a chance to win top spot. Within a year it captured a third of the fast-growing market−but then went no higher. Polaroid came out with its $39.95 OneStep to challenge Kodak's identically priced Handle. Though both cameras were immediate successes, accounting for more than half of all instant-camera sales, the OneStep outsold the Handle by about 2 to 1. The OneStep has a motor that instantly ejects the print after exposure, while the Handle must be cranked before the print...
...clash between Kodak and Polaroid has done much to expand the market. Polaroid spent about $30 million and Kodak $20 million in advertising for instant photography last year, and in the process won many new converts. One result: Polaroid is now selling more cameras than before Kodak elbowed in. During 1975 Polaroid shipped 3.5 million cameras in the U.S., v. 4.5 million units last year, and plants are working three shifts to meet a large backlog of orders. As for Kodak last year, says President Colby H Chandler: "We sold more than 2 million Handles−all we could make...
...instant market is attracting the covetous glances of other firms. Japan's Fuji Photo Film may show off a new instant camera later this year. Other firms, too, are developing instants. Though al] this activity will spur sales, both Kodak and Polaroid may find that holding on to their market shares could become increasingly tougher...
...director and his co-scenarist Bob Gale also take pains to show the rebelliousness that the Beatles unleashed in their audience. Along the way we are casually reminded that the Beatles upended parent-child relationships, destroyed the Brylcreem market and supplanted the Kennedys as teen-age-culture heroes. One girl is so shaken by Beatlemania that she breaks up with her fiance; she suddenly senses that life has more possibilities than she had previously realized. A loud mouthed boy (Bobby DiCicco) tries to chop down the Sullivan show's transmitter because he knows that the Beatles mean the death...
DIED. Jacques Léon Rueff, 81, free-market economist who helped Charles de Gaulle put France on the road to financial reform after 50 years of inflation and deterioration of the franc; in Paris. A firm advocate of the gold standard as an economic foundation for all Western countries, Rueff in 1958 carried out a drastic reduction in borrowing, the removal of nearly all quota restrictions for international trade and most significantly, the creation of a new franc (worth 100 old francs), which helped restore France's balance of trade and built up its gold reserves...