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Power companies build for your new electric

living: Electricity may be the driver.
One day your car may speed along an electric highway, it’s
speed and steering automatically controlled by electronic
devices embedded in the road. Travel will be more enjoyable.
Highways will be made safe — by electricity! No traffic jams . . .
no collisions . . . no driver fatigue.

Your air conditioner, television and other appliances are just the
beginning of the new electric age.

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Your food will cook in seconds instead of hours. Electricity will

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Television “screens” will hang on the walls. An electric heat pump
will use outside air to cool your house in summer, heat it in
winter.

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You will need and have much more electricity than you have
today. Right now, America’s more than 400 independent electric
light and power companies are planning and building to have
twice as much electricity for you by 1965. These companies can
have this power ready when you need it because they don’t have
to wait for an act of Congress — or a cent of tax money — to
build the plants.

The experience, imagination and enterprise that electrified the

nation in a single lifetime are at work shaping your electric
future. That’s why in the years to come, as in the past, you will
benefit most when you are served by independent companies
like the ones bringing you this message — America’s Electric
Light and Power Companies.

Driverless cars in the future?

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