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Virginia B. Laire Joppa...
...would be for AEC, which was then gobbling up 25% of TVA's output, to buy power from a private utility (as it was already doing elsewhere). AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss agreed with Dodge that this was feasible. So did Electric Energy, Inc. President J. W. McAfee, whose Joppa, 111. plant was built to supply AEC's installation at Paducah, Ky.. and could have provided the additional 500-600,000 kw. needed by AEC. On the assumption that Electric Energy. Inc. would do the job, Dodge omitted the steam plant from his budget...
About the time the budget was submitted to Congress in January 1954, President McAfee decided against the plant expansion at Joppa. Instead, McAfee brought in Middle South Utilities. Inc. President Edgar H. Dixon (who was also Electric Energy, Inc.'s vice president). Dixon. with The Southern Co.'s Eugene A. Yates, eventually contracted with AEC to build a steam plant at West Memphis. Its 600,000 kw. were to be fed into TVA to replace the power drained off by the AEC, and thus would only indirectly have supplied the AEC plant at Paducah. Nonetheless, as crinkly-eyed...
Prodigal gets off winging as fun-loving Micah (Edmund Purdom) and sober-minded brother Joram (John Dehner) come galloping hell-for-leather down the main street of Joppa; with true Hollywood ingenuity, they are using stirrups a good 600 years before they were invented. Despite his Old Testament beard and striped gown, Micah leaves no doubt as to his Anglo-Saxon manliness. Before a moviegoer can say popcorn, he has unhorsed a villainous overseer and released from bondage a mistreated slave; later on, he triumphs in a religious disputation with some rascally heathens by a solid right...