New York, Feb. 9.
Electricity output in the United States during the week ended Pebruary 5 was placed at 2,082,000,000 watt hours, according to the week-v report of the Edison Electric In-Tute, published to-day.
This shows a decrease of 5.4 per cent. from the corresponding period of last year, when production stood at 2,201.000,000 kilowatt hours.
Production of electricity during the previous week totalled 2,099,000,000 kilowatt hours, representing a drop of 52 per cent. from the same week in 1937—Reuter,
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