TVA Newsreel: "Day and night, in peace and in war, the dams work for the people. Power for the factories. Power for new industries. Power to run a million machines. Aircraft, tractors, textiles. Engines, shoes, fertilizer aluminum. Cheap and abundant power to light the cities and villages. Power to the farms, to be converted to a hundred homely uses. Power working tirelessly, endlessly. Raising standards. Reducing drudgery. Power in the hands of the people."
NARRATOR: Power was the focus of TVA's youngest board member, David Lilienthal. To ensure continued prosperity for the valley, he pushed TVA to become the nation's premiere public power company.
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Lilienthal made TVA an electric dynamo. And TVA sold its power at bargain-basement rates.
