Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Black Canyon Dam...
Life blood of the whole Tennessee watershed plan is power. Its heart is the Wartime plant at Muscle Shoals. There the Government has sunk nearly $165,000,000 in two nitrate plants, idle since 1919, and the colossal Wilson Dam, 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...
...many a morning newssheet appeared parallel accounts 1) reporting the Administration's plans for raising prices and relaxing the anti-trust laws to prevent useless competition; 2) reporting that Secretary of the Interior Ickes, having opened ten sealed bids for 400,000 barrels of cement for Boulder Dam. found them all uniformly $1.29 a barrel, up 20? since two month? ago. Angered, Mr. Ickes demanded that the Federal Trade Commission investigate whether the companies had entered into illegal price-fixing agreements. Not inconsistent were the two Government actions, but evidence of the Government's dual interest in industry...
...Hugh Cooper, who built for the U. S. S. R. its vast Dnieper dam, called on the President to discuss the Tennessee Valley waterpower project, possible recognition by the U. S. of Russia...
...Decision. Attorney Thompson won, Attorney Baker lost. Federal Judge Luther Way decided that the Appalachian project came under F. P. C. jurisdiction because the New River, though not navigable itself, flows into the navigable Kanawha which in turn flows into the navigable Ohio. A power dam on the New River could affect downstream navigability and hence interstate commerce. The effect of the decision was to compel Appalachian to accept F. P. C.'s authority in the form of a standard license instead of getting a "minor part" license which involves no Government regulation, no recapture. If sustained by higher...