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...Hydro (U. S. Department of the Interior) was filmed by a onetime MARCH OF TIME director, Gunther von Fritsch. A slick job of cutting and photography, Hydro gets at the problems back of the New Deal's Columbia River power project in the Northwest: denuded forest slopes, timber markets cut off by the war, abandoned farmlands that thirst for water. A propaganda picture, Hydro shows how Grand Coulee and Bonneville Dams will irrigate barren fields, provide power for new defense industries, put jobless men to work. Best shots: the wild, glistening waters of the river undammed, royal Chinook salmon...
...territory. Between 1933 and 1937 industrial growth there (number of plants) was over twice that of the rest of the U. S. Main reasons: cheap and abundant power, the six-foot, 500-mile channel up the Tennessee River. With nearly 1,000,000 kw. in twelve major hydro developments and five big steam plants (of which 300,000 kw. was taken over from private utilities), TVA is already nearly at capacity, must install more (TIME...
Last week this team began to get production. Their first deal: an immediate expansion of capacity in the controversial domain of TVA, which sought and got a new hydro plant (90,000 kilowatts) and a new steam plant (120,000 kilowatts), plus transmission facilities and generators, all to cost $65.000,000. These will give TVA 25% more capacity (by 1942) than its normal building program...
...green light. TVA's sales-both residential and industrial-have been soaring. More than one power-hungry chemical company on TVA's lines feared the growing load might cause a shortage, hamper defense. The steam plant is to insure against a repetition of last fall's hydro shortage, when the valley was visited by a combined boom and drought (TIME...
...sales expand, feared it might be elbowed out of the TVA reserve power on which it relies for peak-season production. (TVA withdrew 30,000 kw. from Aluminum Co. on July 1.) Alcoa welcomed TVA's promise of new capacity, but wanted still more. Proposing to build two hydro stations of its own (90,000 kw.) on the Little Tennessee, Alcoa asked the Federal Power Commission whether it claimed jurisdiction over them (as it can over all dams affecting navigation). Last week FPC, to speed the job and make things easier for Alcoa, waived jurisdiction...