Power for Progress in the Air: General Electric Jet Engines
1954 · New York
by LA PIERRE C. W
New York: The Newcomen Society in North America, 1954. Second printing. Staplebound pamphlet, 6” x 9”, 24 pages. Illustrated. With a hint of darkening to the covers, else fine in printed wrappers. The printed presentation by C. W. La Pierre, Vice-President and General Manager of the Aircraft Gas Turbine Division of the General Electric Company before a meeting of the Newcomen Society on April 1, 1954 in Cincinnati, OH. The Newcomen Society began originally in London in 1920 and then in the United States in 1923, serving as a champion of American capitalism, entrepreneurism, and free enterprise until its closure in 2007. (Inventory #: 20873E)