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...been estimated with the co-operation of the State Department of Waterways that the distance from Larz Anderson bridge to Lake Waban on Wellesley's campus is approximately 32 miles. Although the river offers a generous sprinkling of obstacles such as dams and hydro-electric works, its actual fall is confined largely to the regions immediately adjacent to these developments...
Chief features in this program are visits to productive units such as coffee plantations and hydro-electric plants, and conferences at the end of stays in each of the main cities with government officials and economic experts...
...settled back to its own business of construction, management and investment banking. International Paper & Power Co., no banker but a potent holder of utilities stock, woke up one morning to find that it might become a holding company. It finally escaped by turning over its shares of International Hydro-Electric System, with SEC's approval, to a liquidating trust to be sold...
...reason for this hunt for new capacity is partly Act of God. Last summer's drought lowered the level of the rivers which feed the 27% of U. S. power capacity which is hydro instead of steam. Last year when water was plentiful, hydro output set a new record: 41,500,000,000 kilowatt hours, 38% of the total...
...August 1939, when total U. S. power production was up about 10% over August 1938, hydro production was down 8%, and steam plants had to plug into hydro's distribution outlets to stave off a power famine. August steam plant output jumped 21%. September told a similar story. Most acute water shortage was in TVA country, in New England (where August hydro output fell 34%), in the Middle West (where rainfall had been ⅓ to½ of normal). Part of last month's coal crisis (TIME, Oct. 2) was due to utilities' emergency demands. Another reason...