POWER COMPANIES
ATTACKED IN UNITED STATES JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CHARGES NEEDLESSLY HIGH PRICES. AND WASTE OF ELECTRIC , ENERGY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) WASHINGTON, August 19. A Justice Department: attorney, Mr John Walker, accused the General Electric Westinghouse Electric Company and over 100 public utilities companies of operating together to retard the development of fluorescent lighting throughout the country, because it requires only one-third to one-half the current required for incandescent lighting. ’ Mr Walker told the Senate Committee investigating patents that as a result of the companies’ actions, lighting power bills for homes and industries were held up on a high level. At the same time, the conservation of electric energy for the -war production programme was materially blocked.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1942, Page 3
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121POWER COMPANIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1942, Page 3
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