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Show Country's Motive Energy, The gauge of a nation's Industrial might Is the amount or motive energy which It mn command for the manifold mani-fold fields nf production nnd tho essential es-sential contributory activities. We havo maintained our supremncy In manufactured output very largely because be-cause or the vust amount of power which we could call Into service, Robert Rob-ert G. Skerrett wrote In the Scientific American. Modern nations expend fur more energy than the combined muscular ability of their population and beasts nf burden. The margin Is covered by tho employment of mechanical me-chanical energy In the form or power, To accomplish the work done annually In the United States, would require the labor or 3,000,000,000 hard-working sluves. The use or power gives to each mnn, woman and child In this country the service equivalent or thirty thir-ty sen num. |