Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long bitter years Congress had wrangled wordily over Muscle Shoals, constructed during the War to produce nitrates for munitions. Henry Ford had wanted it. Alabama Power Co. had wanted it. American Cyanamid Co. had wanted it. But no one had wanted it quite so fiercely as Senator George William Norris of Nebraska-not for himself but for the Government to make and sell electric power. A fanatical advocate of public water power production, he believed that U. S. operation of the 1,000,000-h. p. Muscle Shoals plants would quickly and convincingly show up all the iniquities...
...House, President Hoover was bombarded with advice. The fertilizer industry, which saw where the Muscle Shoals plant could take away six-sevenths of its business, pleaded for a veto. So did private companies, which knew the Government could produce two-thirds of all the electricity consumed in the Tennessee-Alabama-Mississippi territory. Recalled was the President's letter to a Tennessee Congressman during the last campaign: "The House plan will secure developments of this great resource more effectively . . . than the Senate plan. . . . Nor would I approve the [Senate] plan because it is not in the interest of Tennessee...
...Roman Catholics rank first among all denominations in all the States except Kansas, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Idaho, Utah...
...races left new marks in the world record book as well as in the pine track: the 70-yd high hurdles, and the 1⅞-mi. relay. Lanky, pale-faced Percy Beard of Alabama equalled the world record in both his heats for the hurdles and then led dark-haired Lee Sentman, last year's champion, and Gene Record of Harvard, intercollegiate outdoor champion, in the final. His time of 8.5 sec. took one-tenth of a second off the U. S. record. The Penn Relay team won their race easily. They were anchored by Carl Coan who, generally...
...millions of dollars away. His great interest for many years has been to build a railroad from Muscle Shoals to Mobile Bay, running along the valley of the Warrior River, passing through lands rich in coal and iron. The charter for this road, to be called the Mobile & West Alabama Railroad, was granted 35 years ago, but Col. May recites a sad story of how other railroad groups have blocked the project. But his hopes for the road are high at present, and he thinks the $30,000,000 needed can be obtained in England where most...