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    "ocrText": "Page thrce\ncharged thot uses could not bc found for the powor which thcy would develop.\nPrivate utility intcrests bitterly fought them tooth and noil. The\nRepublicons in Congress voted twolvo to one against Grand Coulic and choap\npower for the Northwest. How fortunctc we are the t these projocts were built.\nBeforc they were finishod the wor camo, and huge quantitios of power woro\nrequired to nanufacture aluminum and magnesium and othor wor matorials.\nIf the opponents of these and other sinilar projccts had had thoir way, we\ncould not havo achieved our marvclous record of war production and who knows\nhow my more livos would heve boon lost. If thcy ha d ha 1 their way, WC\ncould not havo built the plancs thrt are contributing so much to the winning\nof the war.\nThoso projccts would not be in existonce todny reedy to furnish chonp\nand abundent powor for now industrics and for labor seving devices to lossen\nthe work of our farnors and to increase thcir crops and thoir incomes.\nThey vould not be impounding huge amounts of lifcgiving woter for irrigation.\nIt is estimited that Grand Coulce alonc can provide sufficiont wotor\nto irrigato 1,200,000 acres of fortilc but arid land. Whon that land is\nirrigetcd, it will support 350,000 people on farms and in ci ties and towns\ndependent upon them. The t shows what con do when to have the vision and\nthe will to go forward.\nThese projects must, bc corried thr ugh to complction, and others\nli o thom must bc initiatodo New industrics must bc ostobli shed to utilizo\nthe powcr, and cxisting industrics must bo encouragod to expend.\nMany millions of dollars have be n spont in the Pacific Northwost for\naluminum and magncsium plants. For exmple, ve built ncor Spokano one of\nthe world's larges t and mos t nodern aluminum rolling nills at a cost to\nthe Govornnent of more than $50,000,000. That nill and othor projects for\nthe fabrico tion of finished and soni-finished products must bc kept in\nopcration.\nThe facilitics provided for wer production will form the nuclous for\nc. great prospcrity for the entiro nation, if wc have the courage and the\nvision to ser to it that they are kcp in opcration. If their omployees are\nthrown out of work and plents are dismontlod or allowed to lic idlo, the\ninjury will be bsyond calculo tion.\nNARA\nTo win this war we havo built at the expensc of the government ncarly\ntwonty billion dollars worth of fine plents and have equipped thom wi th the"
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