Word: mohawk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Consolidated Edison, Central Hudson Gas & Electric, Niagara Mohawk Power, New York State Electric & Gas and Rochester Gas & Electric, which together serve 90% of New York State...
With 7,863 men, "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne planned to drive straight from Lake Champlain to Albany. There he would link up with two more armies; Sir William Howe's, moving north from New York, and Colonel Barry St. Leger's, sweeping east across the Mohawk Valley. The three-pronged attack aimed to crush the rebellion by separating New England from the other colonies...
Private Power Fires. The private power companies were slow to organize a rebuttal. But when Niagara Mohawk did join with four other major utilities* to back the Capehart-Miller bill, which would let them do the job, they presented some impressive arguments. Their know-how and existing facilities in the area, they said, would keep the project millions below the Government cost, and finish the first phase three years ahead of the Government. Private rates would be slightly higher than the Government's, but only because the companies would pay $23 million a year in municipal, state and federal...
Said New York's Democratic Representative William E. Miller: "Army engineers construct nothing . . . They supervise . . . and they would probably have the people who are now employed by Niagara Mohawk to construct [the project] anyway." As a clincher, private powermen said they would impartially serve all customers, while the federal development would give more favorable contracts to cooperative and municipally operated utilities, at present servicing only 3% of the state's electric customers...
...Consolidated Edison, Central Hudson Gas & Electric, New York State Electric & Gas, Rochester Gas & Electric. With Niagara Mohawk, the five serve 90% of the New York State area and nearly one-third of its population...