... to rural America than the Resettlement Administration. The Rural Electrification Administration (REA) was given authority to furbish the right to distribute electricity to areas not being serviced by the major private power companies. Only 10 percent of the nation's farms had electricity in 1936. When the REA's lines were finally attached, they dramatically changed the lives of millions of farm families who ... had been able only to dream about radios, washing machines, and farm equipment advertised in magazines (783). The hardships endured by these families without electricity would, f...

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... , the period of the "One Hundred Days," measures creating new governmental agencies intended to restore fair prices for farm goods (the Agricultural Adjustment Administration), to provide flood control and cheap electricity for the people of the South (the Tennessee Valley Authority), to put young men to work at conservation projects (the Civilian Conservation Corps), and to restore and stabilize the industrial ... agricultural production to fit demand and thus raise farm prices, was then consistently maintained. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) also continued robustly throughout the...

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