Word: plant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today, if it can manage to reach a decision in the one day allotted to the subject, the House of Representatives votes on the Muscle Shoals question. There are three possible plans, which will be considered--all of them dealing with phases of government operation of the tremendous plant. Private operation plans, which would necessarily involve great losses to the United States, have all been abandoned...
...development of farm fertilizers. The dual project of the Norris plan is sound, but it has more than this to recommend it. It will provide a test of the comparative merits of public and private operation. If the government can make a success of the Muscle Shoals plant under the Norris plan which not only pays for itself, but also is concerned with the public interest through the manufacture of fertilizers, a precedent will be established for further government control. At all events, should the test prove successful or not, the House would do well to follow the lead...
...enthusiastic over electricity and was a constant student of the wonderful inventions and developments. I was connected with the building of the first power station in Belgium, in 1897, and have never lost my interest in electrical things since then. In 1901 I established the first artificial silk plant in Belgium. Now you know how to make as much money as I have...
...from entering such valuable territory. . . . My brothers and I are not in politics down there, and we have nothing to do with Wall Street. . . . From the meagre information I have the losses from looting our movable property may run to $100,000; but if the pipe line and mill plant have been destroyed the loss might run to $3,000,000 . . . and the owners would face ruin. ... I guess this is what comes of investing one's money in foreign countries...
Bottled is not, as the title might imply, a noisy melodrama of ginthetic sin. Rather, it is a quiet and delicious little comedy about the descendants of a Kentucky distiller who have inherited his plant but who are unable to profit thereby because of the exigencies of the Volstead law and the severities of their progenitor's robust and thrifty widow. At last, after selling her their shares in the enterprise so that she may continue her proud traffic in bootleg, they go away from the old distillery on various romantic errands. Bottled was written by Anne Collins...