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Show WHY HANDCUFF UTILITIES? The 17 financially largest public utility groups, including investment companies and allied interests, says Samuel Insull, represent 43.7 per cent of the total capitalization and 48.4 pr cent of the countrjr'a total gen-eraing gen-eraing capacity. The situation of theso 17 utility groups is almost paralleled by that of the 17 largest railwa;y systems, which together represent 1 about one half of the total railway ..capitaliba-tion ..capitaliba-tion and one half of the .ross railway rail-way income. One may wonder why inhere are proposals that investment or holding companies in the electric industry |