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trification people, can honestly say that we do not want to spend toward this type of construction one dollar that is not absolutely necessary or expedient, but I say to you tonight that without the bargaining position which this right to generate power to us, we could /iot have made the
hope to meet the demands of future growth and development.
“Likewise the so-called preference clause in the Flood Control Act of 1944 gives electric coops and municipalities first call on power generated at Government hydrodams.
"Gentlemen of Congress, may I respectfully say to you that the elimination of the preference clause from fheFlood Control Act of 1944 will spell out the beginning of the end for the vast farmer-owned and farmercontrolled / private American enterprise, which has done so much for our rural people and for the Nation as a whole.
“There is unlimited space in this great land for private competitive enterprise. It will continue to make us great and keep us free. There is also a definite place for private monopoly as long as it fulfills the mission for which it is intended. But we shall never stand idly by and permit selfish interests to deny our people the benefits of the human and
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