Word: lowerers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under floodwater last week lay large parts of the Colorado River valley around Austin, Tex. Mightily displeased were scores of washed-out farmers who turned up at the capital, demanded to know what had happened to the Lower Colorado River Authority's four-dam flood control and power project, engineered by the Federal Bureau of Reclamation with $15,000,000 of PWTA funds. Mightily pleased, on the other hand, was Price Campbell, publicity-wise president of West Texas Utilities Co. which stands to lose a 200-mile circle of its power customers to the Authority. President Campbell thought...
Economic Deviltry. Under Japan's puppet Governments in Nanking and in Peking, according to dispatches, companies dominated by Japanese officials are being given monopoly franchises to operate utilities in Nanking and vicinity, many Chinese mines and virtually all inland shipping on the lower Yangtze. Owners of the properties were advised by Japan's Chinese puppets to turn over their properties in exchange for stock in the new firms, or face outright confiscation within ten days. Dispatches from Peking reported that in Nanking, Chinese peddlers are now employed in large numbers by Japanese narcotic jobbers to peddle opium...
...Took first step under the Natural Gas Act of 1938 to lower gas rates. The Federal Power Commission gave Hope Natural Gas Co. of West Virginia 30 days to answer complaints that it was charging too much for gas in Cleveland...
...snowball in the South. In 1914, eight leading Southern cities had an estimated industrial production of $418,017,000; last year this figure had more than tripled under the influx of such industries as textiles and wood pulp, moving from the North to the South to take advantage of lower costs and nearness to raw materials...
...from Knoxville, Tenn. to Indianapolis (377 miles) 78?, from Syracuse, N. Y. to Detroit (378 miles) 67?. *In a study of eight industries published four months ago, the National Industrial Conference Board found that wage scales in the South are substantially below the East and West even with lower living costs taken into consideration. According to the study, the average Southern cotton mill worker gets a weekly wage of $15.52, compared to $20.34 in the East. Living costs in the East were found to be only 5.8% higher than the South, while average weekly earnings ranged from 15.7% higher...