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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cake Mix 1940s, by General Mills and Pillsbury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Hundred Great Things | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...General Electric has been the world's most valuable company. In fact, it can serve as a proxy for the transformation of American business. A few highlights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Business Of America | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Since the dawn of humankind, there have always been geniuses born to the general population at random intervals. But geniuses have rarely married other geniuses because there were so few and it was unlikely they would meet. Until recently, people married whoever lived nearby and wasn't a relative. And if your cousin's parents were willing to give you a fine-looking goat, you would be flexible on the relative issue too. Not that it mattered, since the demand for geniuses was low. But lately the demand for geniuses is growing exponentially, along with their breeding opportunities, thanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gene Fool | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...General Electric Co. is eight years old, the product of the merger of the Edison General Electric Co.-Thomas Edison's firm and the Thomson-Houston Co. It is a forced marriage: Edison was an inventing genius but no match for J.P. Morgan in finance. Edison would quit soon after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Business Of America | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...Flashbulb 1930, as Photoflash lamps by General Electric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Hundred Great Things | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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