Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...environmentally unsound sources of energy, I do stand by my contention that the new directors appointed by President Carter, David Freeman and Richard Freeman, are attempting to restore to the TVA some of its more people-oriented goals, along the lines of the land reclamation projects of the 1930s. (I did not contend in the article that the TVA had evidenced any commitment to the land in recent year...
...born in 1916 to a landlord of the Yunnan province in southern China. She quit college in Peking and joined the Communists after Mao's Long March of the mid-1930s. She soon met Teng, one of the party's rising stars. Teng had apparently abandoned a first wife, betrothed to him by his parents without his consent, and had lost his second wife, perhaps during the Long March. He and Cho Lin were married...
...1930s a more humanistic T.V.A. attempted to solve the valley's problems, to harness the awesome power of the river that ran through seven states, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky and Ohio, to mend the damage it had wrought, and to improve the lives of the valley's residents. Not only did the agency bring electricity to most of their homes fro the first time, it also cut the price of power throughout the valley by two thirds, by serving as a yardstick against which the public could judge the prices charged by private utility companies. The yardstick idea...
...administration of the solar demonstration project in Memphis harks back to the more democratic methods of the 1930s. Instead of relying on a skilled labor force already employed, the agency is training people from the unemployment lists to install the solar systems. In addition, they have given all their orders for solar equipment to small businesses that are being bought up by oil giants like Atlantic Richfield, Mobil Oil, and Shell Oil. This is a particularly ominous trend as these companies have an interest in seeing that solar technology is not marketed until their oil, coal, and nuclear resources...
...Society was formed by 1930s goalie Dave Mittell in honor of George W. 'Skeets' Canterbury '01, Harvard's goalie coach in the pre-World War II period. Like his charges, 'Skeets' was a rare breed...