Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, and Edwin C. Kepler of General Electric Company.

Among the more familiar plans for dual-channel advancement is that of General Electric.

Let us look at the heavy-electrical-goods industry in which General Electric, Westinghouse and a number of other manufacturers were recently convicted of engaging in a conspiracy to rig prices and allocate the market.

Naturally, enterprises of the size of General Electric are in a position to structure their prices in such a way that the relatively small competitors can be forced to the wall in a very short time.

The paradox implicit in the whole affair is shown by the demand of the government, after the conviction, that General Electric sign a wide-open consent decree that it would not reduce prices so low as to compete seriously with its fellows.

* Martin Gabel, General Electric Theater ( 4 / 1 / 1962 ; adaptation of " The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim ")

* 1892 – The General Electric Company is formed.

The characters also sold chainsaws, underwear, ties, detergent, candy, soft drinks — including a licensed version of Capp's moonshine creation, Kickapoo Joy Juice — and General Electric and Procter & Gamble products, all requiring special artwork.

Indian-born Ananda Chakrabarty, working for General Electric, had developed a bacterium ( derived from the Pseudomonas genus ) capable of breaking down crude oil, which he proposed to use in treating oil spills.

Burroughs was one of the eight major United States computer companies ( with IBM, the largest, Honeywell, NCR Corporation, Control Data Corporation, General Electric, RCA and UNIVAC ) through most of the 1960s.

On June 26, 2009, Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, called for the U. S. to increase its manufacturing base employment to 20 % of the workforce, commenting that the U. S. has outsourced too much in some areas and can no longer rely on the financial sector and consumer spending to drive demand.

* Recollections of Steinmetz-A Visit to the Workshops of Dr. Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Emil J. Remscheid, General Electric Hall of History Foundation, 1977.

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The Standoff Land Attack Missile features an ATR unit from General Electric.

CANDU reactors were first developed in the late 1950s and 1960s by a partnership between Atomic Energy of Canada Limited ( AECL ), the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario ( now Ontario Power Generation ), Canadian General Electric ( now GE Canada ), and other companies.

He said: " I wanted to call my company General, but there's so many Generals in the U. S .: General Electric, General Motors.

This led to alliances between Japanese calculator manufacturers and U. S. semiconductor companies: Canon Inc. with Texas Instruments, Hayakawa Electric ( later known as Sharp Corporation ) with North-American Rockwell Microelectronics, Busicom with Mostek and Intel, and General Instrument with Sanyo.

The Compactron is a 12-pin vacuum tube family introduced in 1961 by General Electric in Owensboro, Kentucky to compete with transistorized electronics during the solid state transition.

The first portable color television, the General Electric Porta-Color, was designed using 13 tubes, 10 of which were Compactrons.

Many smaller computer companies had come and gone in the 1950s, wiped out when new technical developments rendered their platforms obsolete, and even large companies like RCA and General Electric were failing to make a profit in the market.

Hall, Sr. ( Hallmark Cards ), Jeffrey R. Immelt ( General Electric ), Gail Koziara Boudreaux ( United Health Care ), Grant Tinker ( NBC ), and Brian Goldner ( Hasbro ).

* 1953 – Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.

Concerning information processing, DARPA made great progress, initially through its support of the development of time-sharing ( all modern operating systems rely on concepts invented for the Multics system, developed by a cooperation among Bell Labs, General Electric and MIT, which DARPA supported by funding Project MAC at MIT with an initial two-million-dollar grant ).

Christiana Securities Company and Delaware Realty & Investment Company, major stockholders in Du Pont, and the stockholders of Delaware were dealt with specially by provisions requiring the annual sale by a trustee, again over a ten-year period, of Du Pont's General Motors stock allocable to them, as well as any General Motors stock which Christiana and Delaware owned outright.

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, former President of the Ford Motor Company, comes from a generation different from that of Eisenhower's own first Secretary of Defense, Charles Wilson, who had been head of General Motors.

In September 1940 a section of the No. 2 Squadron RAF Regiment Company was detached to General Wavell ’ s ground forces during the first offensive against the Italians in Egypt.

General Motors purchased a majority stake in 1925 and changed its name to the Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing Company.

The Bakelite Corporation was formed in 1922 ( after patent litigation favorable to Baekeland ) from a merger of three companies: the General Bakelite Company which Baekeland founded in 1910, the Condensite Company, founded by J. W.

O ' Daniel had parlayed the show's popularity into growing power within Light Crust Flour's parent company, Burrus Mill and Elevator Company and wound up as General Manager, though he despised what he considered " hillbilly music.

In 1955, W. Thomas Grubb, a chemist working for the General Electric Company ( GE ), further modified the original fuel cell design by using a sulphonated polystyrene ion-exchange membrane as the electrolyte.

General Motors Company, commonly known as GM ( listed General Motors Corporation before 2009 ), is an American multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, and the world's largest automaker, by vehicle unit sales, in 2011.

Hans Egede's Hope Colony was organized under the auspices of the Bergen Greenland Company prior to its bankruptcy in 1727 ; it was succeeded by the merchant Jacob Severin ( 1733 – 1749 ), the General Trade Company ( Det almindelige Handelskompagni ; 1749 – 1774 ), and finally the Royal Greenland Trading Department ( KGH ; 1776 – 1908 ).

The U. S. United Fruit Company ( UFC ) started becoming a major force in Guatemala in 1901, during the long presidencies of Manuel José Estrada Cabrera and General Jorge Ubico.

Marconi ( later part of the General Electric Company ) remained the city's largest employer ( with two main plants ) until the 1990s.

Following the 1869 finalisation of UK telegraph nationalisation into a General Post Office monopoly, the Isle of Man Telegraph Company was nationalised in 1870 under the Telegraph Act 1870 ( an Act of Parliament ) at a cost to the British Government of £ 16, 106 ( paid in 1872 following arbitration proceedings over the value ).

On 1 January 1912 the National Telephone Company was nationalised and merged into the General Post Office by the Telephone Transfer Act 1911.

* 1999 – British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.

The former Stadhuis of Batavia, the seat of Governor General of Dutch East India Company | VOC.

General National Maritime Transport Company, which owns a large refinery in Switzerland, also halted oil shipments to Switzerland.

While the first use of a roundel in a London transport context was the 19th-century symbol of the London General Omnibus Company – a wheel with a bar across the centre bearing the word GENERAL – its use on the Underground stems from the decision in 1908 to find a more obvious way of highlighting station names on platforms.

The socialist rule was violently ended in 1958 by the U. S .- backed military ruler General Ayub Khan who disbanded the political parties and took tough actions against the communist mass in both East and West Pakistan.

General Ma Bufang, a Sufi, who backed the Yihewani Muslims, and persecuted the Fundamentalist Salafi / Wahhabi Muslim sect.

Twice, in 1933 and 1944, the Uyghurs successfully regained their independence ( backed by the Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin ): the First East Turkestan Republic was a short-lived attempt at independence of land around Kashghar, and it was destroyed by Chinese Muslim army under General Ma Zhancang and Ma Fuyuan at the Battle of Kashgar ( 1934 ).

The Dauphin ( backed by his councillors and the Estates General ) rejected the treaty, and King Edward used this as an excuse to invade France later that year.

Morecambe publicly backed the Conservative Party in the 1979 General Election.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command ( الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين-القيادة العامة ) is a Palestinian nationalist organization, backed by Syria and Iran.

" This interpretation of the naming of the town ( after General Almonte ), although it is a version backed up by a newspaper story, and recorded in Hildamae Bowman's book on the history of Almont ( Almont, The Tale of Then and Now, 1985 ) is open to question.

Pétion became President of the " Republic of Haïti " in the south, where he was backed by General Jean Pierre Boyer, a gens du couleur who controlled the southern armies.

Major General Peter Cosgrove ( right ) Australian commander of the United Nations backed peace keeping operation ( INTERFET ) to East Timor.

Hitler and Blomberg backed down and General Werner Freiherr von Fritsch was appointed instead.

The commander of armoured forces in France, General Leo Freiherr Geyr von Schweppenburg, backed by Rundstedt, strongly disagreed, wanting his forces to be positioned inland to preserve their manoeuverability.

The Country was only saved by the mediation of former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan with a Panel of “ Eminent African Personalities ” backed by the African Union, the United States and the United Kingdom.

The new General Public line-up retained only vocalists Wakeling and Roger from previous incarnations ; the vocal duo was now backed by Michael Railton ( keyboards ), Randy Jacobs ( guitars ), Wayne Lothian ( bass ), Thomas White ( drums ), and Norman Jones ( percussion ).

In 1930, the dictator General Jorge Ubico came to power, backed by the United States, and initiated one of the most brutally repressive governments in Central American history.

As this concern was backed by an opinion of the Attorney General, in 2003 the Genealogical Office discontinued the practice of recognising Chiefs.

Asserting its independence after the Philippine Declaration of Independence on June 12, 1898, the República Filipina ( Philippine Republic ) under General Emilio Aguinaldo issued its own coins and paper currency backed by the country ’ s natural resources.

This was following the paper's announcement that they would be supporting the Conservative Party at the 2010 General Election, having backed the winning Labour Party at the previous three elections.

More modern Tsonga bands, such as General MD Shirinda & the Gaza Sisters play a style called Tsonga disco, featuring a male lead vocalist backed by female singers, a guitar, keyboard or synth and disco rhythms.

On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet bombed the presidential palace La Moneda, overthrowing the democratic, Russian backed president Salvador Allende in Chile.

On March 23, with the support of fellow soldiers, General Horacio Egberto Maldonado Schaad and Colonel Francisco Luis Gordillo Martínez, Ríos Montt seized power in a coup d ' état, that was quietly backed by the CIA, deposing General Romeo Lucas García.

Llamazares was reelected General Coordinator in the seventh Federal Assembly of IU held in December 2003 being opposed by Luis Carlos Rejon then Deputy for Cordoba who was backed by several regional minorities along with the new leftist faction " Espacio Alternativo " and Juan Manuel Sanchez Gordillo Mayor of Marinaleda, Seville who was supported by the more radical factions of IU ( mainly Corriente Roja and CUT ).

Missing ( 1982 ) concerns an American journalist, Charles Horman, who disappeared in the bloody coup led by General Augusto Pinochet in Chile and backed by the United States in 1973.

The Minister General of the order himself came from Rome to interfere with the archbishop's strict reforms, but the stern and inflexible Jimenez, backed by the influence of a strong Queen, held firm in his convictions.