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Show POLLING THE VOLTS Strides Made in Production of Electricity While the output of electricity has more than doubled in the past eight years and has been rising to new record heights for each successive suc-cessive month, the unit cost to consumers con-sumers is less than before the war. In a recapitulation of strides made by the industry, an article in the November issue of "Business Comment," bulletin of the Northern Trust company, states that power production during the first nine months of 1948 was about 11 per cent above the corresponding period peri-od in 1947. Output in 1947 was 15 per cent above 1946. The electric power industry now serves more than 40 million customers, cus-tomers, contrasted with 29.1 million mil-lion customers as of December 31, 193b, an increase of more than one-third. |