Word: ge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...machine cost $4,600,000 weighs 2,000,000 lb., operates at a temperature of 900°, a pressure of 1,200 lb. per sq. in. The new generator, proudly delivered by General Electric Co., was not to be put on the line without ceremony. Mr Ford spied GE's Chief Turbine Engineer Arthur K. Smith at the control station, joined him there. A Ford steering wheel, shoulder-high, had been hitched to the release valve. On the governor two V-8 emblems would begin to move as the giant got under way. Mr. Ford gave the wheel seven...
...sales in 1935 footed up to $122,000,000, an increase over the previous year of 33%. Last week in a preliminary report General Electric showed 1935 sales of $208,000,000, an increase of 27%. From the 1929 peak to Depression's low Westinghouse sales declined 69%, GE sales 67%. And while Westinghouse was unable to make any money for three years, GE managed to show a $13,000,000 profit even in 1933. GE's profit for last year was $27,000,000, inspiring a boost in quarterly dividend payments on its 28,800,000 shares...
...birth. The tour of its laboratories turned out to be a march past a row of closed doors. Some of the tourists privately complained that they were seeing nothing new, that the Alnico magnet was originally a Japanese find, that the little lamp was a Dutch invention, that GE was puttering with both under license. Good cheer returned, however, when the visitors came upon a garbage-grinder which may revolutionize "kitchen waste" disposal by chopping it fine, flushing it down the sink drain (TIME, Sept. 9). With crows of delight the tycoons stopped, played with this gadget...
...General Electric Co.'s research laboratories at Schenectady, N. Y., used to say: "I would rather teach than be President." His tradition of free inquiry continues. Consequently by no means all the bulletins that emanate from Schenectady have to do with straightforward improvements in electrical equipment. Lately GE announced a garbage-grinder which would simplify removal of "kitchen waste" by flushing it, chopped fine, down the sink drain. Even farther removed from the usual run of industrial research was last week's report that from GE's laboratories had emerged a new kind of lily, which seemed...
Ordinary regal lilies are dehiscent: the pollen-bearing anthers swell, burst open, shower sticky golden dust on the blossoms, marring their virginal immaculacy. GE's lily, which owes its existence to Engineer Chester Newell Moore, is non-dehiscent. Mr. Moore was experimenting with the effects of x-rays on genes and chromosomes (heredity carriers in the germ-plasm). He irradiated 75 bulbs of regal lilies. Nothing noteworthy happened to the first generation, but among the second-generation freaks were two flowers whose anthers shriveled without releasing their pollen. From these two Engineer Moore obtained a true-breeding strain...