Word: kodak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eastman Kodak Co. last week announced a "wage dividend" for its 48,000 employees of $15,500,000, biggest in the 38-year-old history of Eastman's profit-sharing plan (last year's bonus: $13 million). Though Eastman's earnings for the first nine months this year were down about 17% from 1948, it's common, stock dividend was higher ($1.70 v. $1.60 last year). Therefore, the bonus, based on the dividend paid to stockholders, was higher also. Paid to everyone employed before last October, the bonus consists of $25 for every $1,000 earned...
...church one Sunday morning in 1879, Harley T. Procter, of Procter & Gamble, listened to a passage from the 45th psalm (". . . all thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they made thee glad . . .") and coined the label "Ivory Soap." In 1890, Kodak launched one of the first relentlessly successful slogans: "You press the button-we do the rest." As other manufacturers ventured into advertising's strange new land, a blaze of new slogans followed: "The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous," "Pink Pills for Pale People," "Do You Wear Pants?" Slogans temporarily gave...
...adapter on his projector, the amateur may dub in a commentary, though he won't be able to record sound as he takes the pictures. The sound can be dubbed into new & old films alike, can be erased and rerecorded in case of mistakes. Armour said that Eastman Kodak Co., Revere Camera Co., Ampro Corp., and Bell & Howell Co all plan to have the new films and adapters ready by next spring. The price of film is estimated at about 50? more than fo soundless rolls. Price of the sound adapter: about...
Divorce. U.S. trustbusters won the first round of their fight to end Technicolor Inc.'s alleged stranglehold on the color-movie industry. The Eastman Kodak Co., charged with helping Technicolor to dominate the field by exclusive color film processing arrangements, signed a consent decree to make its patents available to all comers. Technicolor refused to sign the decree, may carry its fight to the courts...
Pretty Picture. Eastman Kodak Co., which has had a profit-sharing plan since 1912, will cut a fat melon. It will distribute a wage dividend of around $13 million for 1948. The 51,500 eligible employees will receive 2.25% of the pay they got from the company from 1944 through 1948. Typical bonus...