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...people discard paper napkins. The play was considered indifferent Shaw and dull theater until Kate turned it into a personal triumph. The critics drowned in their own superlatives: "A blockbusting performance''-"A human hurricane"-"Conquest by storm"-"One feels as excited as the man who went over Niagara in a barrel...
...Niagara Falls...
...some big cities, vast traffic jams never really got untangled from dawn to midnight; the bray of horns, the stink of exhaust fumes, and the crunch of crumpling metal eddied up from them as insistently as the vaporous roar of Niagara. Psychiatrists, peering into these lurching, honking, metallic herds, discovered all sorts of aberrations in the clutch-happy humans behind the steering wheels...
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...