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Show Big War Plants t be Used in Industries FLORENCE. Ala., Jan. 21. Two big war plants, costing nearly one hundred hun-dred million dollars and now idle, were Inspected from top to bottom today by a congressional committee which will prepare a report on how they may best serve the government in peace times. After looking over the Muscle Shoal nitrate plant, the larger of tho two, Chairman Graham of the house war expenditures committee, conducting the inquiry, declared he was astounded by the immensity of the projects. The steam power plant, engineers told the committee, is the biggest thing of the kind in the south. There is another nitrate plant here, smaller than Muscle Shoals, of which little is heard because it suspended operations soon after it was built. Chairman Graham and Reps. Jefferies, Nebraska, and Garrett, Tennessee, looked it over today, riding through a deserted village . containing about 125 concrete houses, costing nearly a million mil-lion dollars. Disposition of the smaller plant will not be difficult to determine, it was stated, because It can never bo put to any practical use and would have to be scrapped |