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Agfa-Ansco. This now government-run business continued to survive as a hostile alien property (under government control into the 1960s). During this period, the organization was renamed GAF (General
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Binghamton factory were taken over by the U. S. government in 1941 due to its
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of Newark, New Jersey) held by Ansco. The settlement received from
Eastman Kodak was very small compared to the damage done to Ansco, which already had financial problems as a result of business lost to Eastman Kodak.
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