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The new policy means an increase in power rates, although they probably would have gone up anyway. The Administration has switched to a new formula for allocating costs of power at dams. This will boost power costs. But the biggest reason for a rise in rates is the fact that...
The new partnership policy has stirred up a storm of protest from public-power supporters. They charge that it is a "giveaway" to private interests of hydroelectric resources that belong to all the people. Actually, the partnership policy simply means that the Federal Government, instead of going it alone, will...
The hottest political fight is over the Hell's Canyon dam on the Pacific Northwest's Snake River, one of the last great undeveloped river valleys in the U.S. The fight started in 1948 when the Interior Department proposed a huge new dam. The Idaho Power Co. countered...
Although public-power proponents have been trying to represent the power fight as a straight Democrat v. Republican affair, both parties have split, depending on individual projects. Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Robert S. Kerr is sponsor of the Markham Ferry Dam in his state, to be built by a...
This time when Johnston returned to the Middle East, his success, said an American observer, was greater "than anybody had a right to expect." In six quick days in Cairo, Johnston, with much help from Egypt's government, hammered out a give-and-take agreement with the Arabs. The...