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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...today nearly 20% are wired for electricity. That is almost twice as many as were electrified when REA started operations in 1935. Since then REA has lent $90,000,000 to nearly 400 cooperatives, helped build some 84,000 miles of lines, which it strings at a cost not exceeding $1,000 a mile. Private utilities had been charging customers from $1,500 to $2,500 a mile for stringing lines to their doors. In 20 projects, notably The Thumb Cooperative, REA has also financed the building of generators, but other projects buy their power wholesale from private companies...
...which the Authority spent on Wilson, Wheeler and Norris Dams, $49,360,179, or 52% of the cost, has been allotted to power, the rest to flood control and navigation, none for fertilizer or national defense. The 52% figure was arrived at by charging to power the $23,967,177 spent specifically for power development, plus 40% of the cost remaining when this and specific expenditures for flood control and navigation had been deducted. With rates based on this allocation, opined Chairman Harcourt Morgan, TVA's power sales "will be sufficient to cover all of the costs of operation...
President Benes believes that the "Fascintern" will collapse of its own armor-plated weight. He thinks the job of the democracies is to avoid war at almost any cost until time comes to their side. Eduard Benes is thus an optimist. He refuses to believe that Germany will attack his little State. His optimism he bases on three considerations...
Last week, Führer Hitler inaugurated Berlin's gigantic face-lifting by laying the cornerstone of a House of German Tourist Traffic in Potsdamerstrasse. At the same time work started in 15 other Berlin spots-jobs that will eventually cost an estimated 25,000,000,000 marks ($625,000,000), that will take 25 years to complete. Determined to make Germany the world's premier tourist attraction and the centre of European culture, Fuhrer Hitler declared that under his reconstruction plan the city was being rebuilt for 300 years to come, that traffic problems would be solved...
...time charges. Obligated to fill unsold air time with entertainment and edification, networks and radio stations have handed F.T.R.D. rich slices of the ether. Free time contributed to the project in two years is valued at more than $3,000,000, almost ten times the project's actual cost. And the project has succeeded in returning about half its actors to professional stage, screen or radio jobs...