Of current interest: Electrical manufacturers reach all-time production, sales peak

The electrical manufacturing industry repeated its record-breaking performance of 1947 by establishing a new over-all peacetime peak in production and sales in the year just past. Total production is estimated at 7 1/2 billion dollars, 65 per cent higher than the prewar peak in 1941, and 275 per cent higher than in 1939, according to W. J. Donald, managing director, National Electrical Manufacturers Association.