Word: eastport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...giant New England power system (TIME, June 8). Last month the last of a $7,000,000 Works Progress Administration appropriation gave out, left the War Department holding a collection of trim homes, shops, warehouses built for the project's administrative workers on a sandy strand near Eastport. The skeleton staff decamped and 'Quoddy Village became a ghost town...
Under the new schedule, a three-minute call from Manhattan to San Francisco costs $7.50 on weekdays, $4.50 on Sundays. Manhattan to Chicago: $2.50 on weekdays, $1.35 on Sundays. From Eastport, Me. to Portland, Ore., about the two most widely separated points in the U. S., a call can be made for $5 on Sundays. Coast-to-Coast connection time: 90 seconds...
Next day, canceling plans to view the uncompleted 'Quoddy dams by sea from the Potomac, he took his mother in his car, ferried across to the mainland to visit Lubec, Eastport, and 'Quoddy Village, so that Maine men could not say, as they did three years ago, that he had failed to visit them when only a mile away. He saw the neat, clean, $1,500,000 'Quoddy Village erected for the dam builders, was engrossed by the bathtub model of the power project with its four-inch tides demonstrating how power will be made...
...last January the placid sardine-canning village of Eastport on Cobscook Bay was a booming town. Some 5,000 Maine unemployed were working day & night on the project. Three labor camps had been established. On Moose Island, Quoddy Village with 130 colonial houses had been built, with dormitories for both sexes of dam-builders, with grandfather clocks, loveseats, early colonial furniture and $16,000-houses for executives...
...scheme of harnessing the tides for electrical production was conceived several years ago, and a charter granted for an experimental development at Eastport. Perhaps the plans were practical, perhaps not. At any rate they were presented to the appropriate government agency early in the New Deal, and firmly rejected. The reasons: (1) There is already an oversupply of electrical energy in Maine (2) the cost of construction would be greater than any possible economic benefit. This was done of a sort, but apparently not ultimate truth. In 1934, just before the Congressional elections the scheme was re-embodied and vitalized...