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...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...
...decade of debate, which was between men who thought the Government should keep and run Muscle Shoals to benefit farmers and men who thought the Government should sell or lease the project to a private operator. Among the bidders for Muscle Shoals have been Henry Ford, the American Cyanamid Co., the Union Carbide Co., Elon H. Hooker, the Underwood Power Co., the Consolidated Power Co., the Air Nitrates Corp., the Muscle Shoals Fertilizer Co., the Alabama Power...
...Walter S. Landis spoke for the American Cyanamid Co.; and Professor Harry Alfred Curtis of Yale listened in behalf of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. All the great Scandinavian chemical sel-skabs were well represented, as were Italian firms, and from France came the learned Professor L. Bretangnière most hospitable and informatively loquacious was famed Herr Doktor J. Bueb of the "I. G." Herr Doktor Bueb suggested complacently that it is a duty of governments to abolish all tariffs or taxes on nitrogen fertilizers and to secure their transport at preferential freight rates, because the more nitrate...