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...first major industry to obey President Roosevelt's "unlimited emergency" decree; most of them worked right through Memorial Day, thus held production close to capacity. Best news, however, came from utility offices. Despite a scarcity scare in the Southeast, power output last week was 3,011,754,000 kilowatt-hours, 16.3% above a year ago. Like business as a whole, the gains were not uniform. Output of New York's Consolidated Edison was only 0.4% above 1940, while North American Co. (St. Louis, Cleveland, Washington...
...rapidly expanding defense industry (aluminum, ferroalloys, etc.) depends on electricity. But the year's rainfall in the Southeast was 50% below normal. The water level in some of TVA's reservoirs was down 60%. Olds made a quick estimate: the drought meant a 1,000,000-kilowatt power shortage in the Southeast before year...
Unlike his namesake in the steel industry (see p. 69), Powerman Olds has been predicting a shortage all along. Last December FPC forecast that the U.S. defense program would run into a 1,500,000-kilowatt power shortage in 1942. Even after substantial capacity expansions had been planned, its March estimate was an 800,000-kilowatt shortage next year. Now even more power-consuming aluminum plants are planned for defense (see p. 20). Droughts or no droughts, it looked last week as if the next big defense bottleneck might be power...
Heroic in another fashion, for 70 nights of ten Kansas winters since 1929, Marshall H. Ensor has propped his books and notes against the homemade mike of his 1-kilowatt station W9BSP. From 7:30 to 8:30 he has broadcast to a shadowy schoolroom a lesson in how to operate an amateur radio station. By day he taught industrial arts at the Olathe, Kans. high school; by night, according to the proud statisticians of the American Radio Relay League Inc., he taught more people the essentials of radio than any engineering-school professor. Last year Ensor received his master...
Next week he is going to leave his "shack" (broadcasting room), emplane at Kansas City and fly to New York City to get his prize. The ceremony will be broadcast for thousands of hams who learned to tell the difference between a kilowatt and kilocycle at one of Marshall Ensor's after-supper dot-and-dash parties...