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Show MAGNITUDE OF ELECTRIC INDUSTRY The remarkable increase in use of electricity in recent years is shown in nation survey of light and power industry made at the end of 1923. According to figures compiled there are now: 9,689,600 homes having cetnral station electric service; 1,896,000 stores and offices using electricity from central stations: 429,500 industrial establishments establish-ments using electricity from central station; 5,600 electrical central station companies supplying current for light and power; 1 10 holding hold-ing companies that own and operate groups of central stations: 44 state public utilities service commissions regulating and supervising the service; 1,500 exclusive electrical specialty stores; 12,00 electrical electri-cal contractor-dealers. |