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Power: 4) London Power Co.'s 80,000 kilowatt turbogenerator. 5) A 500-kilowatt radio tube, ten feet high, of steel & iron, no glass, made by England's Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Five times as powerful as the tubes used by biggest U. S. radio stations, it is not permanently sealed. The vacuum is maintained by oil pumps...
Reorganization is a long process. That Middle West could be reorganized without affecting a kilowatt in its 5,321 towns seemed altogether probable last week. Assuming moderate patience on the part of bankers, the various regional subsidiaries of Middle West seemed to be financially solid. The aforementioned Eastern division caused the most immediate concern...
...Stone & Webster for Union Electric Light & Power Co. (North American subsidiary). St. Louisans and Kansas Citizens will have summer shacks and duck shooting lodges along its 1,300 mi. of shore line. St. Louisans, who will consume a large part of the dam's annual 425 million kilowatt hours of electricity, also hope that Lake of the Ozarks will temper their city's blistering summers...
...North American subsidiary, Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co., received high praise from Judson Dickerman, Commission examiner. This Ohio company was called a "model concern which conforms to the best ideal of public regulations." Its rates (5? per kilowatt hr.) are low, its securities well secured, its management efficient, its service high-grade. Examiner Dickerman pointed out, however, as one possible reason for the Cleveland company's excellent record, the fact that it operates in competition with a municipal power plant which charges a nominal rate of 3? per kilowatt...
...impression that it rated none of them highly. Republican George Otis Smith, Commission chairman, admitted he had worked privately with the Insull interests for the export of power from his native Maine but could not well explain why the electric rate at Bangor should be 9¢ per kilowatt hour. He favored moderate Federal regulation, opposed public operation. Democrat Marcel Garsaud was opposed by Alfred Danziger, an agent of Louisiana's loud little Governor and Senator-elect Huey Parham Long, who charged Mr. Garsaud was unfit for the job because of business obligations to New Orleans Public Service, an Electric Bond...