Word: gobbler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doktor Rosenberg had as yet had little time for real administrative action. But for months his experts had been planning the economic exploitation of the conquered farms and factories. And certain social innovations might be expected. They were implicit in Doktor Rosenberg's nickname-The Jew Gobbler...
...except for fertilizer (which it makes at Muscle Shoals), TVA does not expect to exploit these resources. Once a gobbler of private utilities, David Lilienthal is now engaged in creating attractions for private capital to come to his Valley. At the same time ("We have obligations to the country as a whole.") he has to avoid acting like a local Chamber of Commerce. The metamorphosis in his character and reputation is locally known as "the dehorning of Dave." Says he nowadays: "I hold no truck with master planning. You can't carry people around. In the first place they...