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LGM Film Club, Part 118: Going Places

By Erik Loomis

In General

On January 26, 2021

A reader asked if I'd discuss the 1952 film produced by General Electric, Going Places, which makes the argument for public transportation. I found it just kind of an odd document. It certainly makes the case for public transportation strongly enough, but at the precise...

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LGM Film Club, Part 25: More Power to the American Farmer

By Erik Loomis

On June 22, 2020

This 1946 General Electric film is an attempt to get rural communities to invest in building or expanding their electric supply infrastructure. I'm not going to lie--this is pretty boring..

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Jack Welch

By Erik Loomis

On March 9, 2020

The vile former GE CEO Jack Welch died recently. History News Network asked if I was interesting in writing one of my patented obituaries for them about this scumbag. How.

GE’s Taft-Hartley Comic, 1947

By Erik Loomis

In General

On September 3, 2015

Thanks to Bruce Vail for sending me this hilarious propaganda comic General Electric put out in 1947 during the debate over the Taft-Hartley Act. He asked me to credit the Maryland labor activist Bill Barry in hunting this up and putting it into a PDF...

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Siting Factories

By Erik Loomis

On October 17, 2013

Why should a corporation be allowed to move its factories wherever it wants? Take General Electric, who is moving its Ford Edward, New York production to (ironically) Clearwater, Florida. In.