Word: flood-control
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...thrown over his shoulder, stood on the rear platform of his car, waved to a crowd at Johnstown while a high-school band played and cheers thundered in vast wavelike surges against the train. Down the Conemaugh River the train moved slowly past the fivemile, $7,600,000 cement flood-control walls that the President had promised Johnstown residents four years before. A sign along the banks read: "Thanks, Mr. President." In Pittsburgh, masses lined the streets solidly, cheering, roaring, waiting: Carnegie-Illinois steelworkers at the plant at Homestead, who last week greeted Wendell Willkie with boos; reverential Negroes...
...committee, continued to forget Economy, gobble 1940 pork. Items: $25,000,000 for some 50 flood-control projects (upping the War Department's total for civil functions $70,000.000 above those voted by the House); a $231,000,950 authorization for future flood-control projects (the House had voted only...
Maryland's debonair Democrat Tydings helped out Ohio's Taft by picturing the Gilbertsville dam as a flood-control project superimposed upon a power project, but Tennessee's McKellar, TVA's Nebraska father, Senator Norris, and Majority Leader Barkley were too much for them. By wide margins the Senate voted the money for Watts Bar and Gilbertsville...
...Supreme Court gave TVA a big inch in 1936, when it upheld TVA's right to sell the power generated by its flood-control activities at Wilson Dam (Muscle Shoals). Last week the Court handed down a 5-to-2 decision* that gave TVA a mile. Fourteen private power companies had appealed from a Federal court decision, which affirmed the constitutionality of TVA's entire power program and held that any loss they suffered from TVA competition was damnum absque injuria (loss without a legal comeback). In moderate Justice Roberts' decision, the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal...
...transferred from the War Department to TVA in 1933); to restrict de-velopment of four dams now under construction and a fifth authorized but not yet begun; to prevent TVA from getting Congressional funds for four more dams. TVA attorneys maintained that the dams were designed primarily for flood-control, improvement of navigation, and national defense. The company attorneys maintained that they were designed primarily to generate and sell electric power and to drive their private competitors out of the utility business...