Wartime electric-system planning

THE YEAR 1941 brought New Jersey defense contracts of more than two billion dollars and with them new highs of electric-power consumption and new problems in electricity supply. Among the larger industrial concerns that have felt the impact of what was the defense program and is now the victory program may be mentioned the Wright Aeronautical Corporation, Otis Elevator Company, Bendix Aviation Company, the Federal and New York Shipbuilding companies, Crucible Steel Company, RCA Manufacturing Company, John A. Roebling's Sons Company. One estimator has said that the state is doing more than 10 per cent of the total defense-war job.