Of current interest: National defense

The electric-power industry was termed a key industry in national defense by George A. Davis, vice-president, Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company, in an address at the 13th annual engineering conference of the Missouri Valley Electric Association, of which he is president. He said that the United States in its present defense effort is more dependent on adequate power supply than in perhaps any other period of its history, and for that reason the electric-power industry is vital in national defense.