Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Case. Appalachian Electric Power Co. wants to build an $11,000,000 dam and plant on the New River near Radford, Va. The Federal Power Commission offered it a standard license whereunder its plant investment would be strictly scrutinized, its rates regulated, its property recaptured by the U. S. after 50 years. Such a license Appalachian declined, on the ground that the New River is non-navigable, therefore beyond F. P. C.'s jurisdiction...
...Glasgow, Del., does more about running the stable than her trainer. James Healy. When she acquired Kellsboro Jack -whose four-year-old brother Steeplejack II is owned by her husband-she was gratified because she had particular regard for his bloodlines (Jackdaw, sire. Kellsboro Lass, dam). Mrs. Clark is aunt to the Bostwick brothers, Pete and Albert. Their able riding is partly due to training they received from herself and Mr. Clark. Pete Bostwick, before he decided to ride Dusty Foot, had the chance to be Kellsboro Jack's jockey last week...
When we catch our first glimpse of Kate, she is carrying on the battle of save her farm from a power company that is planning to dam a nearby river and flood her property. To earn money to fight them in court, she takes to radio and night-club singing, but never forgets her knitting and the folks back home. Faculty she arrives in time to pay the $50,000, and save the old homestead, and, in fact, the whole valley. Farmyard scenes, in which Kate Smith seems as much at home as any other side-show freak would...
...even less intelligent than cinemaddicts, Hello, Everybody! does not even ask its audiences to imagine Kate Smith as anyone except Kate Smith. She is shown first on a farm, crooning to the horses and pigs, joking with the hired man. When a power company threatens to build a dam that will destroy the arable land for miles around, Kate Smith (Kate Smith) accepts an offer to croon professionally to get money to fight the power company in court. The latter part of the picture shows Kate Smith broadcasting in Manhattan, contains close-ups of her porcine countenance illuminated by spurious...
...director, Alexander Macharet, has embellished his small chronicle of earnest endeavor by the foreman of a construction gang. This foreman (Nicholas Okhlopkov) is chipper about his methods and proud of his efficiency until a U. S. engineer arrives to work in the same project-the building of a power dam which represents the one opened at Dnieprostroy last autumn. A rivalry arises between the two men in which the Russian, at first thoroughly worsted, struggles to catch up. His efforts, less heroic than amusing, in one sequence produce the kind of comic suspense on which early Harold Lloyd pictures were...