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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most truculent foes) have begun to work alongside public-powerites (some of the toughest hatchetmen in the New Deal) for the mutual good of preparedness. To the Defense Advisory Commission have come two key ambassadors of the power industry: Charles Wetmore Kellogg, president of Edison Electric Institute, and Gano Dunn, president of construction-engineers J. G. White Engineering Corp. To work with them, the President assigned quiet, round-cheeked, scholarly Leland Olds, Chairman of the New Dealish Federal Power Commission, who has been running the National Power Policy Committee analysis of emergency power needs which Assistant Secretary of War Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Full Steam and Hydro Ahead | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

Utilitarians Kellogg and Dunn had good reason to agree with New Dealer Olds in giving TVA a green light. TVA's sales-both residential and industrial-have been soaring. More than one power-hungry chemical company on TVA's lines feared the growing load might cause a shortage, hamper defense. The steam plant is to insure against a repetition of last fall's hydro shortage, when the valley was visited by a combined boom and drought (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Full Steam and Hydro Ahead | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

...Gano Dunn, president of J. G. White Engineering Corp. and Cooper Union, recipient of many a scientific award in electrical engineering and holder of 30-odd patents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Draft on Business | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

Last week, however, word came from Stockholm that a Swedish scientist had been building thermal diffusion tubes expected to speed up U-235 production 11,000 times, when he was stopped by the war raging around his beleaguered country. In the U. S. Gano Dunn, president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atomic Power in Ten Years? | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

White Engineering Corp., predicted that atomic power would be available in 20 years, may be ten. Mr. Dunn, a practical man who personally holds over 30 patents, said he was sure that Robert Andrews Millikan would agree with him. Dr. Millikan, Caltech's famed cosmic-ray authority who used to say that atomic power was a visionary dream, was "unavailable" to reporters who wanted to know whether he agreed or not. As a friend of Mr. Dunn's, he may possibly not have wanted to contradict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atomic Power in Ten Years? | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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