In Athens last week, a simple ceremony took place to mark a great step forward in the industrialization of Greece. There, operation of a new electric-power system, with three hydroelectric power plants, one lignite plant, and 4,300 miles of transmission lines, was turned over to the Greek government by Manhattan's Ebasco Services, which had designed and built the system. Said Ebasco's Harvey Breckenridge, onetime vice president of Pittsburgh's West Penn Power Co.. who supervised construction: "It's the first time in history that a nation has had a power system in such...
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