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Mr. Campbell snorted: "You can't catch water in a bucket that is already full." Authority Chairman Fritz Englehard retorted that the flood control phase of the project will not be complete until Marshall Ford Dam is finished, 18 months hence. The present dams are not supposed to. control...
¶ After being taken for a tour of TVA dams, power plants, etc. as a member of Congress' joint investigating committee, Republican Representative Tom Jenkins of Ohio snorted: "These great inland seas . . . may be beautiful playgrounds, but they will cost . . . more than the Panama Canal."
Of the $94,125,671 which the Authority spent on Wilson, Wheeler and Norris Dams, $49,360,179, or 52% of the cost, has been allotted to power, the rest to flood control and navigation, none for fertilizer or national defense. The 52% figure was arrived at by charging to...
In the allocation of costs on TVA dams and reservoirs-between navigation, flood control, national defense, agriculture and power-Director Lilienthal tried to make TVA adopt the "byproduct" theory of power development, which would make the power look extremely cheap. "But for the power issue, the TVA dams never would...
The construction of the new Anderson Bridge over the Charles River at Boylston Street is progressing steadily. The contractors have erected coffer dams, and are now at work on the piers which will carry the new edifice. The foundations will be completed soon, and the construction will then move rapidly...