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> On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 09:03:18 GMT, "Fred"
> <testing@testing1212mouse.com> wrote:
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> Fred, I grew up way back when in a home that had to deal with GE and
> all the crap they dish out.
> My old man was an electrical engineer working in one of their
> industrial divisions servicing motors and generators.
> I still hate GE with my heart and soul to this very day.
> It wasn't untill my old man tried to got the union in that he got a
> decent wage.
> It took over a year with GE pulling every criminal, dirty trick it
> could to bust our efforts.
> They even hired teamsters to come in and terrorize the families.
> I took more than a few licks on that one, not to mention me and my
> father having our cars bashed up on several occasions.
> I wouldn't pollute my piss on a GE product.
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> I hear you about that. Typical plantation-minded company best I can tell.
>
> One good thing about them.... they bought one of our major competitors a
> couple of years ago. Now our company spends over half the time fixing

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> products in the field and the other time replacing them!!

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> "James Sweet" <jamessweet@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:LYIBd.20971$2X6.11679@trnddc07...
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> | GE used to make really top notch stuff, sometime back in the 70's though
> | they started getting cheaper and at some point they passed a point of no
> | return. Today for the most part, GE is junk, the once renowned name is
> | forever tarnished.
>
> A lot of these old line names seem to be rented out to 'improve' crap

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> days! You can usually tell when you see them used on some totally 'wrong'
> product. "Bell and Howell Triple Head Shaver - As Seen On TV" comes to

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> Bell and Howell Shavers??? What happened to their projectors?
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> GE used to make really top notch stuff, sometime back in the 70's though
> they started getting cheaper and at some point they passed a point of no
> return. Today for the most part, GE is junk, the once renowned name is
> forever tarnished.

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>"Fred" wrote in message
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>GE used to make really top notch stuff, sometime back in the 70's though
>they started getting cheaper and at some point they passed a point of no
>return. Today for the most part, GE is junk, the once renowned name is
>forever tarnished.

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> Bell and Howell is the brand of parts systems that I repair in car
> dealerships. Same logo, so I know it's the same group. That scares me!!
>
> Will
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>c.reifert wrote:
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>B&H were also in the military manufacturing business (Radar/Periscopes
>etc.)!

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>On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 02:25:47 GMT, "James Sweet"
><jamessweet@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> From chapter 5 of 'Perfectly Legal' by David Cay Johnston:
>
> 'Jack Welch left GE in September 2001 after 41 years. His final
>salary and bonus totaled $16.7 million. He also left with stock
>options worth a quarter of a billion dollars and a pension that
>shareholders were told was worth more than $9 million a year.'
>
> This did not include the perks that were paid by GE, including a
>Boing 737 for his personal use (page 61).
>
> I guess that GE was doing fine for some.
>
> Geo

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>"GEO" :
>| From chapter 5 of 'Perfectly Legal' by David Cay Johnston:
>| 'Jack Welch left GE in September 2001 after 41 years. His final
>| salary and bonus totaled $16.7 million. He also left with stock
>| options worth a quarter of a billion dollars and a pension that
>| shareholders were told was worth more than $9 million a year.'
>| This did not include the perks that were paid by GE, including a
>| Boing 737 for his personal use (page 61).
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>| I guess that GE was doing fine for some.

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>See "America: What Went Wrong?" by James B Steele, Donald L. Barlett
>
>Reader's quote ===>> "America: What Went Wrong" is just as important and
>relevant today as it was when initially released. America's overall economic
>situation is much worse today than it was when this book was initially
>published. This book accurately forecasts the problems America has as it
>loses its manufacturing base and became a service-oriented society (Wal-Mart
>supposedly has 700 Chinese factories of its own). Now the multi-national's
>factories are fleeing Mexico in 2002 for the slave-like workers of China.
>Unsettling for sure, I challenge you to read this book and don't be
>surprised if you re-read parts of it as the late 1990s Clinton/Greenspan
>artificial economic bubble unwinds into a 1930s style worldwide economic
>depression.

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>
>
>See "America: What Went Wrong?" by James B Steele, Donald L. Barlett
>
>Reader's quote ===>> "America: What Went Wrong" is just as important and
>relevant today as it was when initially released. America's overall economic
>situation is much worse today than it was when this book was initially
>published. This book accurately forecasts the problems America has as it
>loses its manufacturing base and became a service-oriented society (Wal-Mart
>supposedly has 700 Chinese factories of its own). Now the multi-national's
>factories are fleeing Mexico in 2002 for the slave-like workers of China.
>Unsettling for sure, I challenge you to read this book and don't be
>surprised if you re-read parts of it as the late 1990s Clinton/Greenspan
>artificial economic bubble unwinds into a 1930s style worldwide economic
>depression.
>
>GW

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> On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 22:33:38 -0800, Mad Mac <madmacmfc@adelphia.net>
> wrote:
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> Bell and Howell were into just about all types of manufacturing years
> ago.
> Especially the photographic industry.
> Gunsight cameras, belly cameras etc...
> Then there's all the actual general photgraphic cameras from still to
> mopic.( in the 60's they marketed the most popular work horse 35mm
> around under the pentax label. Spotmatic was it's name.)
> Then of course there's all the WWII era cameras they made for th
> military which were used right up to the late 70's.( their 16mm combat
> movie cameras the KM, KLM, KRM 70 series. I used them during my combat
> camera days.)
> They also made slide strip projectors as well as movie film
> projectors.
> They started out as principally a grinder of optical lenses and grew
> from there.