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Electricity for a Million Farms
Government-backed Rural Electrification aims to bring power to one million farms by extending EHFA loans, building new lines where needed, and enabling co operatives to buy wholesale power. It highlights farmer wives' labor, appliance demand, and the political challenge of rate equity amid existing utilities.
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Electric Home and Farm Authority
EHFA
Tennessee Valley
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
EMFA
Rural Electrification Authority
Morris L. Cooke
America
REA
Cooke
Mr. Cooke
Pubic Service Commission
Metropolitan Theater
Gus Swanson
Fountain County
Indiana
Wisconsin
Lincoln
Western Newspaper Union
New Rural Electrification Authority