1. Roosevelt
Only one farm in 50 had electricity and half its population of 2.5 million people was living below the poverty line. The T.V.A. was an ambitious policy intended to provide cheap electricity, stop floods, and to make the soil fertile again. Twenty dams were built to generate electricity and millions of trees planted to prevent further soil erosion. ... By 1943, for example, 80 % of the valley farms had converted from kerosene lamps to electricity and farmers were doing better than they had ever done before. ...
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