Business: N. E. L. A.

Ten thousand electric light, heat & power men went to Atlantic City last week for the 50th annual meeting of the National Electric Light Association.

It became known that during 1926 members of the association manufactured 47,030,000 miniature bulbs for Christmas tree decoration, 32,700,000 for flashlights, 116,300,000 for motor cars. This was apart from the 294,000,000 large Mazda and tungsten filament bulbs used for household and industrial illumination. Because N. E. L. A. regulates its production to demand, these figures represent the bulbs bought last year.

Also, it was disclosed how customers of...

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