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...expected, the court accepted the wording of the TVA Act and the testimony of TVA experts as proof that the TVA is an all-round waterway development project. The judges then proceeded to inspect TVA's record as a utility business. Since 1934 TVA has made a total net income of $2,087,497 by selling power to 17 municipalities and 15 co-operatives in four States-Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and Georgia. Many localities have been helped to buy or build their distributing systems by PWA loans-and-grants of which up to 45% may be outright gifts. This...
...North America by Mother Louise Callan, one of the order's most scholarly minds, who developed her history from the thesis she presented for her doctorate of philosophy at St. Louis University three years ago. She was dispensed from her semi-cloistered regimen so that she might inspect the Mississippi Valley sites where her valiant colleagues labored during the past century...
Attracted chiefly by the glass flowers, more than 200,000 visitors a year inspect the displays in the museum...
Perhaps the outstanding thing which the new student notices about the library there is its system for guaranteeing that no books are removed from the building which are not checked out in the regular way. At the only two exits are stationed guards who inspect the books of every person passing out of the library to see that no one is running off with a book illegally...
...would not be difficult for the desk clerks to inspect the margins of the pages of each book when it is returned, as this would merely involved a rapid thumbing of the pages to see if any ink or pencil had been applied to the text by amateur artists or writers. This would make it much easier to apprehend the criminal, and this systematic check in itself would deter youthful vandals from their own desires to destroy University property...