Word: hydros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third of Canada's population; one-half of Canada's industry. Almost every known mineral except coal lies beneath Ontario's geologically ancient hills. And that fact has given rise to the greatest public power enterprise in the capitalist world-the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission. Last week "Hydro" found itself in the thick of a furious politico-economic fight which stirred the whole Dominion...
...July 2, et seq.). And like any good New Dealer the cocky, noisy Premier insisted on making an issue of Power. That was not so easy for Mr. Hepburn as it was for President Roosevelt: almost all of Ontario's power business is already in the hands of Hydro and Hydro is an official appendage of the Provincial Government. Furthermore, no less a private U. S. powerman than . Chairman Floyd Leslie Carlisle of Consolidated Gas Co. of New York and of Niagara Hudson Power Corp. once described Hydro as "the best managed and operated government enterprise in the world...
Most crucial and significant of Soviet plan "unfulfillments" is the continued lag in haulage by Russia's worn-out railways. For reasons best known to himself, Joseph Stalin, while spending billions for hydro-electric power and such, still refuses to buy the thousands of new locomotives, tens of thousands of cars and millions of rails which Russia desperately needs. Instead, the Dictator's policy is to menace Russian railway men with firing squads, goad them to achievements of despair in making antique rolling stock roll on. Goader-in-Chief is the Dictator's dear friend Lazar Kaganovich...
...Press suggested that the husky, thick-set host needed money to finish a hydro-electric project, that a mysterious Southwest power deal was afoot, that the utility men were trying to draft Mr. Couch for active command of the Edison Electric Institute during dark political months ahead. It was even hinted that the whole thing smacked of an unholy alliance of Power, Politics, Education and the Courts...
Meantime his budding flower was set upon by cutworms, slugs and aphids. Two preferred stockholders marched into court to block the Knoxville deal. A group of coal and ice companies, which mortally hate & fear TVA's hydro-electric schemes, hastily obtained judicial permission to join the fight. Since the agreement was already signed & sealed, Bond & Share was placed in the anomalous position of fighting shoulder to shoulder with Mr. Lilienthal...