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As economic conditions began to improve, CIPS strengthened its efforts to sell electric appliances -- ranges, refrigerators, washing machines and vacuum cleaners -- in company offices, including this one in Pana, Ill.
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Construction began on the second 25,000-kilwatt unit at the Hutsonville Power Station.
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Grand Tower Power Station employees displayed the Minute Man Flag to symbolize the company's readiness to meet any national defense demand. More than 200 CIPS employees served in the military during World War II. Two of them, C.D. Boyle and James Newell, were killed in action.
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As the Middle West Corp. relinquished control of CIPS and the company sold its 3 remaining ice plants, more efficient and less costly electric refrigerators put an end to the "ice box" and the CIPS ice trucks that had been commonplace throughout central and southern Illinois.
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