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Because Mr. Roosevelt believes naval power on salt water and electrical power from fresh water will determine the future of the U.S., the power phase of the project now ranks with the navigation phase. To yoke the river's great flow (220,000 cubic feet per second) two huge...
Last week's exhibition attempted to show in a model nutshell that TVA's designers had coordinated its myriad parts into a unified symphony of structure. The severe functionalism of its big dams and powerhouses was echoed in the simple, modern design of its glass and tile lavatories...
Best-educated and most versatile branch of the Army is the Corps of Engineers. Officered by scholastic top-rankers from West Point and by graduates of such crack schools as M.I.T., Purdue and Caltech, the Engineers like to brag that they can do anything. In peacetime they build dams and...
To the people of the Pacific Northwest, public power is nothing new. Seattle has had a municipal utility since 1905, and some other towns in Washington and Ore gon have had them even longer. But behind these scattered outposts lies a web of big private systems, covering a far wider...
Boss of all this public power is a grave, greying New Deal engineer named Dr. Paul J. Raver, who became BPA administrator in 1939. Dr. Raver's ambition is to put every kilowatt in the Northwest under public ownership. Backed by the White House and his two titanic dams...