Identifier: masteringpowerpr01pola (find matches)
Title: Mastering power production ; the industrial, economic and social problems involved and their solution
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Polakov, Walter N. (Walter Nicholas), 1879-1948
Subjects: Efficiency, Industrial Power-plants
Publisher: New York, The Engineering magazine company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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main weakness of public service commissions was in their indif-ference to the matters of national economy and technical, managerialmethods practiced by public utility companies. It should always beremembered that whatever are the conflicts between the public utilitycompanys interests there is not and there could not be any conflictbetween the interests of a local community and these of the entirecountry. From this broader point of view the interests of thepeople are identical with the interest of the whole industry, as thehealth, comfort, and prosperity of one depends on the well-being ofall, yet narrow, temporary and selfish motives sometimes obscurethis truism, while again, individual interests and aims are frequentlyin a direct contradiction (under our present regime), to the nationalobjectives. Although nearly all large American cities are served with elec-tricity for light and power from systems well centralized, represent- 3i 1N30 a 3d m LO _ — (M o o> r- — O
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