Word: polaroid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...duplicating productions division, expects color equipment to eventually capture at least 10% of a fast-growing copying-machine market that already amounts to $1 billion a year. Despite its substantial head start toward that rainbow of riches, 3M has every reason to respect the competition. RCA and Polaroid, which are both newcomers to the duplicating-machine business, are still working on color-copying processes of their own. Then, of course, there is always Xerox, whose color copier, when it comes out, will almost inevitably...
...Scourby for Eastern Air Lines are prized for their ability to project "appetite appeal" and a "prestige sound." Just as important is the preparation of catchy music, which may even become a bestseller on the pop charts, as was the good fortune of Benson & Hedges' Disadvantages of You and Polaroid's Meet the Swinger...
...basis of earnings as a percentage of invested capital, 180th largest industrial firm Avon Products was the best performer with 37.3%. On the basis of earnings as a percentage of total sales, Amerada Petroleum, the 337th company on the list, ranked highest with 26.7%. By either measure, Polaroid and such drug firms as G. D. Searle, Smith Kline & French Laboratories and Merck were outstanding performers...
Heavy-handed amateur ironies prevail. A Polaroid commercial is doctored to show a still of a dead soldier; a Band-Aid commercial is spliced into combat scenes. Only bits and pieces of conversation with Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro give anything like a sense of ideological actuality. The rest has the secondhand look of a film that has been petulantly edited, as the title implies, far from Viet...
...just about to be printed, the plates already having been made and the publicity posters already printed, when Albert Grossman, his manager, told the publishers that Dylan had decided not to release it. The cover of his new album was photographed in Woodstock with, upon Dylan's insistence, a Polaroid. For the last year Dylan is said to have been working very hard producing up to ten songs a week. Rolling Stone magazine printed a list of song titles early last fall that the magazine had heard would be on the new album; only a few made...