National Defense Power Committee meets. Washington, D.C., Oct. 28. The National Defense Power Committee, created by the president on Sept. 3 to study the problems of electrical power as related to national defense, met at the War Department today. The Committee announced definite commitments on the part of leading utility companies in the nation's strategic war materials centers to place immediate orders for turbo-generators, boilers, and auxiliary equipment totalling 1,000,000 kilowatts of generating capacity. Reading from right to left around the table are - Elbert K. Burlew, C.E.E. Grossbeck, William Douglas, Floyd L. Carlisle, Basil Manley, Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson, Assistant Secretary of Navy Charles Edison, Fred. A. Delano, Benjamin V. Cohen, James F. Fogarty
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Date
1928
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Harris & Ewing, photographer
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 38.90719, -77.03687
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Library of Congress
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