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Touchback. In Bridgeport, Ohio, when parents complained that members of the high-school football squad were undergoing too strenuous training, Coach Al Blat-nik put them to playing drop the handkerchief...
GOODS & SERVICES New Ideas Homing Tubes. An automatic system of pneumatic delivery tubes, developed by I.T. & T., went into operation in the Bridgeport Brass Co. The robot system routes carriers throughout the plant through a network of tubes, works on the same principle as a dial telephone. The operator sets a dial on the carrier, and electric contacts along the way send it to any one of nine plant stations...
...Springboard. Wilson had been moved to G.E.'s great plant at Bridgeport, Conn., a change which gave him the luxuries of which he had dreamed: a house with a lawn and trees, golf, a Peerless automobile ''built like a locomotive." At Bridgeport, too, he landed on the springboard which was to propel him to the final dizzy pinnacle of the G.E. hierarchy. President Swope-in one of the sweeping changes of policy which have always been one of the keys to American productivity -decided to take the services of electricity to the people...
...stayed in Bridgeport for 14 years-probably the happiest years of his life. In that time, things like washing machines, ironers, refrigerators (it was Wilson who took the cumbersome coils off the top of the G.E. refrigerator, streamlined it, and made the housewife covet it) became some of the mainstays of G.E. Charlie Wilson made them-made more of them faster and better. It was a production man's dream...
...first given him on Manhattan's rowdy West Side. It was something he never dramatized, but he had never lost a strong sense of duty to the church. He had become a Baptist in his teens, had taught a Sunday-school class of Chinese children. Later, at Bridgeport, he had organized and conducted a course for young men in comparative religions. Now, in suburban Scarsdale, he headed a drive to pay off the church mortgage...