Word: kanawha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tuberculosis. When workmen refused to go into the tunnel heads, foremen, according to subsequent court testimony, often clubbed them on. But the foremen dutifully followed their gangs into the dust, and many of them died too. According to the People's Press, Rinehart & Dennis, tunnel builders for New-Kanawha Power Co. contracted with a distant undertaker to bury casualties at $50 per head. When he had buried 169 of them on his mothers farm at Summersville, W. Va. she planted the cemetery to corn...
...Isle of Man. Ostracized by both families, the honeymooning couple crossed the Atlantic to New York. Hunting for a home in the wilderness, they reached Pittsburgh by post, floated down the Ohio River on a keelboat. Some 14 miles below Marietta and hard by the mouth of the Little Kanawha, the wandering Blennerhassetts came upon a narrow island three miles long. There, in 1798, Harman Blennerhassett began building a mansion...
...Decision. Attorney Thompson won, Attorney Baker lost. Federal Judge Luther Way decided that the Appalachian project came under F. P. C. jurisdiction because the New River, though not navigable itself, flows into the navigable Kanawha which in turn flows into the navigable Ohio. A power dam on the New River could affect downstream navigability and hence interstate commerce. The effect of the decision was to compel Appalachian to accept F. P. C.'s authority in the form of a standard license instead of getting a "minor part" license which involves no Government regulation, no recapture. If sustained by higher...