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...long brainstorming session, when he suggested “Job’oozle,” an amalgam of the words “job” and “bamboozle,” but was promptly shot down. While such head-scratchers as Blue Kangaroo and Yellow Snow were also considered, Solimine repeatedly advocated for the name Job’oozle until...
...progress has been measurable. In 1997, for instance, 100 days passed between the first step of making film to when the little yellow box reached the customer; today such cycle times are half as long. So far, says Brown, KOS has saved "tens of millions of dollars worth of capital and hundreds of millions in inventory" and has contributed "hundreds of millions in productivity." Impressed by such stats, Carp asked Brown in late 2003 to inject KOS into Kodak's entire corporate plumbing, from human-resources management to product development to the products themselves. "It's an entire management philosophy...
...Most of the company's digital cameras are now made in China. In Rochester's northwest, the 2,200-acre Kodak Park, once the hub of Kodak's industrial operations, is full of vacant lots and demolished buildings. At its peak in 1982, the firm--once called the Great Yellow Father--employed more than 60,000 people in the city and had long been famous for its paternalistic employee policies. That figure is now 16,300 and trending down. Factories have also been closed in Europe, Australia and elsewhere...
...YELLOW EARTH...
...innate realism of films didn't discourage early actors. In 1919, the year Richard Barthelmess played the sensitive "chink" in Broken Blossoms, the Danish actor Warner Oland played his first Chinese in The Lightning Raider. Oland looked no more Chinese than, say, Bob Keeshan, yet he was cast "yellow" dozens of times, including in four films with Wong, and culminating in 16 Charlie Chan movies. When Oland died, in 1938, Missouri-born Sidney Toler was tabbed to replace him; he played the sleuth in 22 films, until his death in 1947. Wong had played Fu Manchu's daughter...