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...producers Jim Gutman and David Helpern said yesterday that they have submitted a prospectus for the six-month series to Polaroid and to the National Endowment for the Arts, both of whom have indicated interest in helping to finance the newsreel...
Slipping on the special Polaroid glasses for this revival is an instant time trip. Back you go to the advent of 3-D in the early '50s, when Bwana Devil had a lion jumping out from the screen and It Came from Outer Space landed a meteor right in your lap. House of Wax, which combined the pop-out tricks with the grue of the traditional horror movie, seemed the best of them...
...City and Dallas, and said that he wanted to buy. He did not sign any of the customary documents for identification and credit information. Even so, of some 25 firms that he called, brokers at six* agreed to buy stock for him. Most of Treff's investments-including Polaroid, Alberto-Culver and Bristol-Myers-were sound. If he had held on to them, he claims he might have made $30,000 to $40,000 in profits within a few weeks. But Federal Reserve and stock exchange rules require that shares be paid for within five trading days of their...
...largest labor organization, has demanded that blacks be given the right to join unions and be paid the same wages as whites. Equal pay for equal work has been adopted by the city of Port Elizabeth, the Standard Bank and Barclay's Bank of London, and Polaroid. The idea has become, as the Johannesburg Star recently put it, "as fashionable as hot pants." But in many areas, it will take a long time to close the economic gap. White factory hands earn six times as much as blacks doing comparable work, white miners 17 times as much, and white...
Some manufacturers, notably Polaroid and Maytag, refuse to play the private-label game. But for many others, the temptation of greater sales is irresistible. Notes Rodger Gibson, a G.E. brand manager, speaking of the company's private-label operations: "It helps keep the factory busy, and the more units we make, the lower the cost." There is also a growing band of little-known producers who specialize in private labels. One of the biggest, San Francisco's California Canners and Growers, generates annual sales of $102 million by turning out canned goods and other foods mostly for major...