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New plants double U. S. power. The map pinpoints the new electric power plants and plant additions built by the nation's electric companies just since World War II. They give each American twice as much electricity as he had then. In spite of this, the people pushing for socialized electricity still talk “power shortages” as an excuse for getting government deeper into the electric business,
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