The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 167

LOUISVILLE-APPUANCE PARK Mor. than 10.000 people are employed producing the world's finest major appliances (capacity, 60,000 a week). This is one of the largest plants ever built by General Electric, and is the largest major appliance center in the world. vSU OWENSBORO-RECEIVINQ TUBE 3,850 people make radio, i television, military, and industrial tubes under rigid quality controls, t'V Ajk Atmospheric conditions ore closely regulated in assembly areas. 1 i n-rtlT'ii imnhn i til'im 11111 iiii nr LEXINGTON-GLASS Plant produces blown-glass bulbs used the many varieties of incandescent lamps you use in your home.

4 4 4 i LEXINGTON-LAMP Automobile sealed-beam headlights are the mainstay of this General Electric installation in the Bluegrass. GENERAL ELECTRIC Ceneral Wc 1 came on the Kentucky AQ RFPM A DADT industrial scene in 1945, IHw Dies IM A Mil I when we began manufac- TZ ICF MTI IIC Vet tur'n8 electronic tubes in iAfclil I Uvll I Owensboro. A year later we INDUSTRIAL GROWTH ZTZ, and glass plants in Lexington. The building of Appliance Park, near Louisville, started in 1951. Work began on our Somerset glass plant in 1957.

And, in addition to these major projects, we have carried out other building and expansion during this postwar period. Today, our five Kentucky plants provide employment for almost 15,000 men and women. Several hundred more work in warehouses, service shops, and offices. Our annual Kentucky payroll is close to ninety-five million dollars. General Electric's growth in Kentucky has been aided in large measure by the abundance of human skills, natural resources, utility and transport facilities, and capable suppliers that are here.

We like Kentucky. The men and women we employ, and our community neighbors, are people with whom we are proud to be associated. We are glad we made the decision to locate a number of our plants in Kentucky. We look forward to the future in, and with, this great Commonwealth. SOMERSET-GLASS This plant makes borosilicate glass (a hord, pressed variety) for the lamp plant in Lexington.

Thgress Is Our Most Important Ptocfuct GENERAL ELECTRIC I THE C0UHIEH JOURNAL: KENTUCKY INDUSTRIES.