Word: kellogg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rose Charles Wetmore Kellogg, president of Edison Electric Institute and $1-a-year power man for 0PM. He declared that present U.S. generating capacity allowed for a 20% margin of safety, is adequate for all defense and civilian needs. Tired of needling by the Federal Power Commission, which has predicted a power shortage ever since 1934, he remarked: "Power shortages estimated by public bodies have generally been at a time in the future so distant that they have been eliminated by new construction before the time arrived." E.E.I, foresaw an increase of installed capacity to 48,000,000 kilowatts...
Next day Mr. Kellogg was given the lie direct. First to do so was Ickes. "This is no time," cried he to a press conference, "for any man to fool either himself or the people. I don't know whether Mr. Kellogg was trying to fool himself, but he certainly was misrepresenting the facts to the people." Asked whether he felt that 0PM should seek a new power expert, Ickes replied: "Why, they haven't got one now." And Mr. Kellogg? "Ha! He's worth all of the $1 a year he's being paid. . . . Papa...
...went 80,000 copies (10? a copy); to subscribers went 37,000 annual subscriptions ($1 a year), about half of them donated by good-neighborly U.S. readers. Included were 32 pages of ads-first in Reader's Digest-by such firms as Gillette Razor, General Motors, Parker Pen, Kellogg's Corn Flakes, big oil companies...
...Frederic B. Kellogg, Chaplain to Episcopal students, Christ Church...
Utilitarians Kellogg and Dunn had good reason to agree with New Dealer Olds in giving TVA a green light. TVA's sales-both residential and industrial-have been soaring. More than one power-hungry chemical company on TVA's lines feared the growing load might cause a shortage, hamper defense. The steam plant is to insure against a repetition of last fall's hydro shortage, when the valley was visited by a combined boom and drought (TIME...