Should U. S. housewives who fret over electric bills move to London they would find their worries considerably increased. For in Great Britain light costs an average of 13¢ per kilowatt hour, almost twice the U. S. average of 6.8¢. Electric power, too, is much more expensive in London, costing 4¢ per hour in England; 2.16¢ here.
Yet Londoners may soon expect to see brighter and cheaper illumination struggling through the city's fogs. For into the English light-&-power industry last week entered the Utilities Power & Light Corp., a multilateral U. S. utility company...
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