Word: cpa
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Grand Coulee Dam in the largest public power project on earth. Grand Coulee was built by Ickes' Reclamation Bureau, and both are being temporarily managed by Ickes' able, shrewd Dr. Paul Raver. To make this control permanent, Ickes got a bill introduced in Congress setting up CPA under the Interior Department, with a single administrator to be appointed (and removed) by him. To counter this move, the Norris forces introduced a bill setting up CPA like TVA-with a three-man board, appointed by the President, with terms extending over a nine-year span...