Word: byproduct
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...allocation of costs on TVA dams and reservoirs-between navigation, flood control, national defense, agriculture and power-Director Lilienthal tried to make TVA adopt the "byproduct" theory of power development, which would make the power look extremely cheap. "But for the power issue, the TVA dams never would have been built. To deny that is sheer hypocrisy . . . Mr. Lilienthal's byproduct theory is a subterfuge...
...months ago and announced that he was taking over Midweek Pictorial from the New York Times, to give the U. S. its first weekly picture magazine, the publishing profession wondered about two things: Whose money was he using? What would he make of the Times's old photographic byproduct...
...fill the demand. After the War, when price-fixing ended, platinum rocketed above $170. Then in the early 1920's new platinum deposits were discovered in South Africa and in the late 1920's it began to be recovered in Canada's nickel mines as a byproduct. Not until Depression, however, did the price return to $45 and below...
...gashing their pines with "catfaces" and having it distilled into 80% of the naval stores produced in the U. S.* In the early 1900's, when Southern lumbering was at its peak, a new steam process for extracting turpentine directly from, sawmill waste was introduced, and a new byproduct, pine oil, not present in the gum of the living tree, was found. It is this process which Newport and the naval stores division of Hercules Powder have used to- build up the other 20% of the total business, sharing it fairly evenly between them...
...decision, foresaw that this enthusiasm might assume too much. Only the Wilson Dam had been declared legal. Some other dam might be found otherwise. The Court did not pass on the right of the Government to retail electricity, only to take the necessary steps to get rid of a byproduct. Nor did the Court pass on the right of the Government to distribute its power for social purposes in a wider area than would constitute a "reasonable market." However, TVA men had a right to rejoice: They had been freed of a major legal threat, could accomplish much before...