Word: jacksons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Under the statutory standard (the Natural Gas Act of 1938) of 'just and reasonable' it is the result reached, not the method employed, which is controlling. ... It is not the theory but the impact of the rate order which counts." To this, Justice Robert Houghwout Jackson dissented at length. He argued, in effect, that the "prudent investment" v. "reproduction cost new" utility debate did not even apply to the natural gas case at hand, and, with the concurrence of Justices Frankfurter and Reed, he retorted: "The Court sustains this [FPC] order as reasonable, but what makes...
...Andrew Jackson May, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, who said: "The war will end probably in 1942, and unquestionably...
...rolling country near Jackson, Miss., 1,500 German prisoners of war were busy with pick & shovel. They heaped big mounds of earth, dug trenches and excavations that looked like foxholes. They were building perhaps the biggest topographical map ever made. When finished, it will be a mile-long concrete model of the Mississippi Valley, complete with tributaries, hills and mountains, stretching from Pittsburgh to Denver, from Minneapolis to New Orleans. Object: a laboratory to study flood control...
...history devastated parts of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Many engineers and soil conservationists now believe that the attempt to control the Mississippi and tributaries by big dams is futile. They favor stopping floods at their source by means of many small catch basins in the feeder streams. Because the Jackson model includes all the sources of the Mississippi instead of only the lower part of the Valley, the Army's engineers hope it will point the way to more effective flood control...
...Here, if anywhere, mankind had turned over a new leaf, and in a clean new world, free from all absurd traditions and tyrant mortgages, was beginning to lead a pure life of reason and virtue." In 1835 Grandfather was back in Spain, U.S. consul at Barcelona, appointed by Andrew Jackson at a low point in U.S.-Spanish relations...