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Muscle Shoals. Use of the largest part of the hydro-electric power developed for the manufacture of fertilizer, containing not less than 40,000 tons a year of pure nitrogen, to be sold at a profit of not over 8%, with farmer control to keep down the cost of distribution. This is coupled with opposition, on account of the delay involved, to the appointment of a commission to solve the Shoals problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: A. F. B. F. | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

...district of Katanga, in the Belgian Congo, 1,700 miles from a sea port. Shipments are made via the Benguella Railway and Lobito Bay to Europe. Already a concentrator and electrolytic refinery and a battery of coke-ovens have been provided to work the ores extracted; while a hydro-electric plant and a leaching plant are shortly to be added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: African Copper | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

...Government of $120,000,000 under a 50-year lease. For the manufacture of fertilizer 50,000 horsepower was guaranteed; the fertilizer to be sold at cost plus 5%, and half of the profit to be devoted to research work. Three quarters of the profit from the sale of hydro-electric power was to go to the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Proposals | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

...worked alternately at manual work, agriculture and designing in mining districts between Mexico and Alaska. He improved the process of washing gold. He spent one winter in a hut on an island in the Arctic to study a project for installing a hydro-electric plant. After many years of this practical mining, he founded a firm of engineers specializing in construction of shafts and mining plants. His four big mining ventures were successful; two in Colorado?"Tomboy" and "Smugglers Union"; and two in California?"Plymouth"and "Mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Serene Silence | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

...soft-headed youth of this lax age. As usual he is interesting, but interesting particularly in his inability to fathom psychological intricacies as he has fathomed the mysteries of mechanical invetion. It is easy to put faith in his prophetic vision when he says that the immense development of hydro-eletric power now in progress may lead within a score of year to a four hour working day. But when he prophecies that the younger generation will "spend that shortness basely" few who have either faith in education or sympathy with youth will deny that his vision is astigmatized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LATTER DAY PROPHET | 10/22/1923 | See Source »

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