POWER: More Abundant Light

Because on some 6,000,000 of the nation's 6,800,000 farms farmers still read their mail-order catalogs by lamp light, still run their radios, if any, on batteries, still pump their water by hand or gasoline engine, President Roosevelt last May used his emergency powers and some of his relief billions to set up a Rural Electrification Administration. Its job was to provide farmers with electric lights, electric refrigerators, electric pumps, electric feed grinders. Early this year Nebraska's Senator Norris, No. 1 Congressional lover of electricity, sponsored a bill to lend $100,000,000 a...

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