General Electric G.E. Trivia and Random Facts

Some of the trivia and random facts about the U.S. business General Electric, or G.E.

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Women at GE generally hold the most boring and repetitious jobs, as well as the lowest paying. Of the 105 top executives in the company, none are women.

Over $1 billion in tax dollars goes to GE each year for military and related work. The company makes excessive profits on this aspect of production, often 50-100% above the average profits for domestic consumer production. For the Indochina war GE produced major components of the F-4 Phantom fighter-bomber, including the J-79 jet engines, the 20-mm Vulcan cannon, a TV display panel for guiding Walleye "smart" bombs, automatic fire control systems, and electronic countermeasures. The company also produced electronic countermeasures for B-52 and F-105 bombers, an aircraft mini-gun and other aircraft armaments, and components for the "people-sniffer" chemical sensor.

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