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INDUSTRIAL
AND ENGINEERING
CHEMISTRY
Vol. 41, No. 5
AL. Office, 111.
10 CENTS
la U. S. Territories and P o s i e u l o n e
Light & Power From
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Soaring Demand Brings Record Expansion in Electricity Production Factors: New Crop of Stores A n d Factories; More Home Appliances; Big· F a r m Use A n $8,500,000,000 Investment
T h e power generating facilities designed a n d c o n s t r u c t e d by S t o n e & W e b s t e r
B Y ROBERT H.
SELLTITZ
\ Electrically minded Americans have nged the nation's electricity makers into biggest power expansion program t h e | d has ever seen. nbnail measures of its magnitude: , to U. S. power making facilities ^ar 1939 are by themselves greater pmbined generating capacity of v p r e a t Britain. New capacity ^completed in the next three as much as has been cicity was discovered* fdstick: The $8.5 ^-making comgpend on experiod i s penditure £ogram. The Wall Street Journal, •k spent February 21, 1949 L over Vorld
Engineering Corporation t h r o u g h the years total over 6,000,000 kilowatts, equivalent to o n e - t e n t h of t h e total generating capacity of all electrical utilities in t h e United States. Work of t h e Corporation currently in progress for leaders in t h e industrial a n d p u b l i c u t i l i t i e s field i n all p a r t s of t h e country will increase this total over 2,000,000 kilowatts.
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STONE & WEBSTER ENGINEERING
CORPORATION
A SUBSIDIARY OF STONE & WEBSTER, I N C .
