Word: joppa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Electric Energy, Inc., a combine of five privately owned utility firms, to supply power for Atomic Energy Commission installations at Paducah, Ky. In 1950 AEC contracted with TVA to build a power plant at nearby Shawnee, Ky., and with Electric Energy, Inc. to build a similar plant at Joppa, Ill., just across the Ohio River...
...past few years, utility men have also displayed a new aggressive spirit in pooling their resources to meet the challenge of atomic power. When the Atomic Energy Commission wanted a 900,000 kw. plant to supply its Paducah, Ky. works, five utilities combined to do the job at Joppa, Ill.; last year 15 companies joined to put up the two biggest private-power plants in the U.S. (total capacity: 2.2 billion kw.) to supply power to AEC's Portsmouth, Ohio atomic plant. Utility men have not forgotten that their own future may lie in atomic energy. For the past...
...system, would have little cause for complaint. He was asking permission to charge one-party business subscribers only $4.50 a month (up from $3), and party-line residential subscribers only $1.75 (instead of $1.50), with a distance surcharge for maintaining those miles of poles running to Bean Station and Joppa...