Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surprise. Few practices arouse more bitterness among utility men than that of Federal money to build municipal plants which compete with private companies. When the PWA made a loan and grant to establish public plants in four small northern Alabama communities, the constitutionality of the project was promptly attacked by Commonwealth & Southern's subsidiary Alabama Power Co. A similar action was brought by Duke Power Co. against Greenwood County, S. C., which obtained a PWA loan and grant for construction of the Buzzard Roost hydro-electric project on the Saluda River. Both companies charged that PWA Administrator Harold...
When government attorneys last week heard a bewhiskered conservative, Justice George Sutherland, begin to read the majority opinion in the Alabama case, they shuddered. As he continued to read what turned out to be not a majority but a unanimous decision, they could scarcely believe their ears, for it completely upset the companies' contentions...
...Rose Bowl game, No. 1 game of the day, 90,000 people besieged Pasadena to see the University of California play the University of Alabama. California was bent on spoiling Alabama's record of never having been defeated in the Rose Bowl. In the first quarter Alabama outplayed California. But in the second quarter the pounding of the heavier California line began to tell on Alabama, and California's Vic Bottari hustled around right end for a touchdown from the 3-yd. line. He duplicated the play in the next quarter, and that ended the scoring. California...
...Orange Bowl. Miami-Alabama Poly (Auburn) 6, Michigan State...
...surfeit of literary talk get no such fees. In the declining scale of rates, a best-selling author like Dorothea Brande (Wake Up and Live!) can count on getting $500 a lecture, while best-selling writers of the stature of Carl Carmer (Stars Fell on Alabama) are quoted at $200. The majority of lectures are delivered at prices ranging between $100 and $200, and in the case of impromptu readings of poets or proletarian novelists to radical groups, rates finally taper off to $5 an evening or just...