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Show CHEAPER Edison- put the incandescent electric elec-tric light on the market in 1879. Four years later, rates became uniform uni-form at 20 cents a kilottatt hour. The price today for small consumers consum-ers average 8 cents or less than half of what it originally was. The same is true of thousands of other articles. When people say cost of living has doubled, they refer re-fer to food, clothing, rent and other basic items. Ingenuity in manufacturing manufac-turing has lowered more other prices than any of us realize. Can't compare our cost of living with grandpa's, for he didn't have a hundreth of things we use and consider con-sider indispensable. |