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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee, Mr. Willkie gave a vivid picture of what utilities, and utility investors, are up against. If subsidized low TVA rates and the "brutal doctrine of Chattanooga" forced utilities to sell out to the Government, their troubles only began. Mr. Willkie, for instance, thought Tennessee Electric Power Co. was worth $120,000,000; TVA was offering $65,000,000. If any public purchaser disliked the utilities' price, bitterly protested Wendell Willkie, it could set up a duplicating system with PWA funds, getting 45% of the money as a gift and borrowing the rest at low interest. Pointing out that...
Sadly detailing his own experiences with TVA, Mr. Willkie claimed that every time his negotiations with TVA Director David Eli Lilienthal reached a crucial point, "there has been an interesting coincidence in threats of duplication, either from the PWA or the Chattanooga Power Board...
...fair and disinterested third party," replied Mr. Willkie. He suggested the SEC. Mr. Willkie said Mr. Lilienthal had vetoed a suggestion that both sides name an arbitrator and the Supreme Court nominate a third...
...think Mr. Thomas Corcoran or Mr. Jerome Frank suggested that," chuckled Wendell Willkie...
...Same day Mr. Willkie began his testimony in Washington, it was illustrated in Memphis. There the negotiations between the city power commission and National Power & Light Co. for the city's purchase of Memphis Power & Light Co., for which Mayor Watkins Overton has offered $13,500,000, were taken out of the mayor's hands by an intransigent bloc of commissioners steered by Democratic Boss Ed Crump. Unless M. P. & L. cut its price for the electric system and agreed to cut gas rates as well, ultimatumed Boss Crump's men, "we are going to build...