Word: cyanamid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finished in 1925. What to do with this national defense investment provided a 13-year controversy ended by last week's bill-signing. Henry Ford bid for it and was turned down. Alabama Power Co. unsuccessfully offered to take it off the Government's hands. American Cyanamid Co.'s bid was also rejected...
...long bitter years Congress had wrangled wordily over Muscle Shoals, constructed during the War to produce nitrates for munitions. Henry Ford had wanted it. Alabama Power Co. had wanted it. American Cyanamid Co. had wanted it. But no one had wanted it quite so fiercely as Senator George William Norris of Nebraska-not for himself but for the Government to make and sell electric power. A fanatical advocate of public water power production, he believed that U. S. operation of the 1,000,000-h. p. Muscle Shoals plants would quickly and convincingly show up all the iniquities...
...mind what to do with the $150,000,000 power and nitrate plant it built during the War at Muscle Shoals, Ala. on the Tennessee River. Once Henry Ford wanted to take it off the Government's hands. Then Alabama Power Co. offered to lease it. Lately American Cyanamid Co. has been bidding for it. Two years ago Congress passed legislation for the Government to operate its own property, only to have the bill pocket-vetoed by President Coolidge...
...majority: 1) their extensive anonymous propaganda against Government operation, as revealed by the Federal Trade Commission (TIME, Feb. 27, 1928, et seq.); 2) their stubborn opposition to regulation by the Federal Power Commission (TIME, March 10); 3) the flagrant lobbying against Government operation and in favor of the American Cyanamid bid by the Tennessee River Improvement Association and its onetime head. Claudius Hart Huston, now Republican National Committee Chairman (TIME, March 31). Last week wrote Mark Sullivan, veteran Washington observer: "What it [the Senate's bill] symbolizes and what gives it its political potency, stated in the extremely loose...
...Huston collected cash, sent more than $156,000 in four years to his Washington headquarters. In 1928 he had a large hand in writing the Muscle Shoals plank in both the Republican and Democratic platforms. His association lobbied for the Muscle Shoals bid of the American Cyanamid Co., under which Union Carbide Co. would get a share of surplus Muscle Shoals power...