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General Electric of Germany is the sprawling Siemens concern, manufacturing all kinds of electrical equipment from huge hydro-electric plants to telephones. Head of the Siemens firms since 1919 has been the youngest son of their founder, tall, frank-faced Carl Friedrich von Siemens...
Stung by the Senate's remarks on its (and Alcoa's) slowness in meeting the aluminum shortage (TIME, July 7), OPM also announced that TVA and Alcoa had agreed on construction of 100,000 kw. of hydro capacity at Fontana, N.C., ending a long squabble over who would pay for the project. (TVA grabbed the check, subject to getting funds from Congress...
...Sent a message to Congress, urging immediate development of his old pet, the St. Lawrence seaway and power project, in spite of the fact that it would now have to compete for labor and materials with defense industries. Said he: "The enemies of democracy are developing hydro-electric resource and every waterway from Norway to the Dardanelles. Are we to allow this continent to be outmatched? . . . Your action on this project will either make available or withhold 2,200,000 horsepower of low-cost electric power for the joint defense of North America...
...hydro-dependent Southeast, there was indeed a shortage. This week Federal Power Commission and Common wealth & Southern men were working out a rationing system, to be effective June 16. Night baseball stopped in Atlanta; many a municipality dimmed its street lights, even obsolescent stand-by plants went into operation. In Washington there was talk of sending the Normandie (which generates 120,000 kilowatts) to light Mobile. Neither a New Deal plot nor a utilitycoon's mistake, the Southern shortage was an act of God: drought...
Christmas Under Fire (Warner Bros.) is also propaganda, like Hydro is notable for reason and restraint. Produced by Britain's General Post Office film unit, Christmas Under Fire tells how Britons celebrated their second war Christmas-with bits of holly tied to barbed-wire fences, tinsel hung on gun emplacements, in basement shelters under their smoking towns. Reminiscent of the blasted countryside and ruined cities in H. G. Wells's Things to Come is the bleak, dark, stormy landscape of Christmas Under Fire. But inside are the same cheerful Britishers Quentm Reynolds, Collier's London correspondent, provides...