GE’s industrial machinery and consumer goods electrified the power grid and lit American homes and kitchens. Its engines kept aloft American fighter jets, commercial airliners around the planet, and even Air Force One. Its lenders propped up new owners of McDonald’s franchises and leased out railcars carrying oil, grain, and lumber across North America. Its sonograms beamed images to expectant parents, its X-rays revealed broken bones, and its MRI machines scanned organs searching for cancers. Americans dashed to its refrigerators for snacks, then back to their couches to watch episodes of
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