Word: bonding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Electric Bond & Share, having suffered a major defeat in Knoxville last year, was again completely routed in Memphis. There TVA Director David Eli Lilienthal scored when citizens voted 18-to-1 to buy or build with the proceeds of a $9,000,000 bond issue a municipal system using TVA power. Private ownership rallied a vote only a little larger than the number of utility employes and only one-half the number of customer-stockholders...
...citizens, after having turned down less ambitious projects for the past ten years, gave the necessary two-thirds majority to a $12,000,000 public utility program. Wapakoneta, Ohio voted to build a generating plant to supply the distributing system it now owns. In St. Paul, where a power bond issue was roundly rejected last spring, voters refused to grant 20-year franchises to Northern States Power...
...roster of communities rejecting public ownership heartened few utility stockholders. Muskogee, Okla. refused to approve a $1,250,000 bond issue for a local plant. Mount Olive, N. J. also thumbed down a municipal system. In Morenci, Mich. the citizens voted 435-10-393 against a power bond issue...
Terms of the Knoxville deal could be readily extended. Certainly Bond & Share had no desire to have the value of its Knoxville properties extinguished by lopsided municipal competition. But the 13 coal and ice companies, with the moral support of many a thoughtful Tennessee Valley businessman, were determined to drag Mr. Lilienthal, dead flower in hand, before a high court...