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Show U. S. May Control Power Plants. Washington. To meet the urgent need for electric power in war industries, indus-tries, a bill approved by the war industries indus-tries board was introduced Monday by Representative Sims of Tennessee authorizing au-thorizing the president to construct power plants. The bill also would authorize the' president to take over privately-owned power plants, to increase their capacity capac-ity or to require the owners to place all or part of their power at the disposal of the government. An appropriation of 5200.000,000 for construction, acquisition, maintenance und operation is proposed. |