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...Stepping up per capita kilowatt-hour sales some 148% in twelve years, it has given seven rate reductions. In 1926 the average rate was 8.74? per kwh: today...
...bombing of a central transmitter. Some standby Government transmitters have been built in remote country locations, and equipped with Diesel power units for use in case of bombed local power lines. One function of these new transmitters may be to outshout Germany's mighty, new 500-kilowatt station, pulled out of the Nazi hat two months ago by Joseph Goebbels at Oldenburg, near the Dutch border, 30 miles from the North...
...battlefield. In 1920, Lenin foresaw "the newspaper without paper and without distance." Now Tass, official Soviet news agency, radios its news daily to 3,254 newspapers. Some two-thirds of all Russia's long-distance telegraphic communication is relayed by radio. Russia's 75 stations (mightiest, 500-kilowatt Radio Moscow) speak 62 languages in reaching the 170,000,000 inhabitants. Listening is largely in groups, in workers' clubs, factories, etc., over receivers which tune in the Government programs, nothing else. Russia is too far away from the rest of the crowded radio world to worry much about...
...first acts was to hire 500 salesmen to sell electrical devices. C. & S. began to extend its lines into rural areas; as electric consumption increased, it began to lower its rates, inviting more consumption. When Willkie took over in 1933, Commonwealth & Southern's average domestic rate per kilowatt hour was 6?. Today...
...system sold 4,147,339,000 kilowatt hours in 1933. In the twelve months which ended last May 31 it sold 8,238,016,338; net for the holding company's common went from a deficit of $808,000 in 1933 to a profit...