Word: leland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most important of all, Mr. Secretary Ickes delivered a shrewd speech in Tacoma to win the Northwest to his side in the great three-cornered battle which is now going on for control of the new defense power projects-a three-cornered battle in which Ickes is arrayed against Leland Olds of the Federal Power Commission on one side and all the sponsors of the Regional Valley Authorities on the other. In his speech, dedicating the Tacoma power substation to J. D. Ross, the late public power pioneer, he hit the farthest north any New Deal figure has come...
Krug had made a fast start. But his appointment merely intensified the fight over who will be U.S. power tsar. Fortnight ago FPC Chairman Leland Olds launched an ambitious plan (TIME, July 28) to make FPC (i.e., himself) the boss. Olds ran head-on into Secretary Ickes, the earlier claimant. Said Ickes of Olds's plan: "It does not suit this department at all . . . some recommendations were very
Federal Power Commission Chairman Leland Olds bounced out of a one-hour confab with President Roosevelt and Secretary Ickes one noon last week to announce the biggest expansion of U.S. power capacity ever heard of. Dimensions: five years...
Southwest's President Leland Hayward, cinema agent, TWA director and husband of twinkling Margaret Sullavan, gave each man a silver wrist tag. Stockholder Brian Aherne flew in in his Fairchild to see the fun. Stockholder Hoagie Carmichael thumped the piano in the canteen...
...drought last week had Federal Power Commission Chairman Leland Olds more worried than any farmer. In the Southeast, electricity depends on water power, and many a rapidly expanding defense industry (aluminum, ferroalloys, etc.) depends on electricity. But the year's rainfall in the Southeast was 50% below normal. The water level in some of TVA's reservoirs was down 60%. Olds made a quick estimate: the drought meant a 1,000,000-kilowatt power shortage in the Southeast before year...