Word: niagara
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Solicitor Russell told the Senate committee that Niagara Falls Power Co. had claimed a value of $77,000,000, when in reality $30,000,000 of that sum was nothing more than its right to water covered by its U. S. license. This the power company denied. Solicitor Russell also testified that power companies included in their valuations large sums used for lobbying. Accountant King told similar stories of his efforts to get at the facts of utility investment, only to be blocked by Secretary Bonner who called him "too meticu-lous." He openly charged Secretary Bonner with being more...
Before the Senate Committee appeared Oscar Charles Merrill, onetime Secretary of the Commission. He testified that the Commission in 1928 had submitted to the House a report in which were cited examples of alleged inflation of capital assets by power companies, including the Niagara Company's $30,000,000. Political pressure, he claimed, was brought to bear on the then Commissioners-Dwight Filley Davis (War), Hubert Work (Interior), William Jardine. (Agriculture)-who recalled the report and deleted the samples of "power padding" lest they "cause a rumpus" by the companies...
Crime has political significance only locally, however. Outlanders listened even more attentively to what the country's prime Democratic officeholder, the governor of the state which contains Niagara Falls, would have to say about Water Power. For six years New York's Democratic governors and Republican legislatures have bickered violently but fruitlessly over hydro-electric control. Alfred Emanuel Smith, as Governor, laid down the Democratic plan: state ownership, control and development of St. Lawrence River power sites. The Republican plan: control and development of power sites by private interests under mild state supervision...
...paths along which the public would pass to view the model would represent the principal national motor highways, and subsidiary routes would lead to representations of places of interest in various sections of the country such as Niagara Falls, Chicago, Yellowstone Park, Puget Sound Region, southern California, the Grand Canyon of Colorado...
...horizontal scale. Thus the Rocky Mountains of Colorado would be 20 to 30 feet above the level of the lake and 10 to 20 feet above ground. The Palisades of the Hudson would be a foot high. The Grand Canyon would be 250 feet long and ten feet deep. Niagara Falls would be four inches high...