Word: plante
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Muscle Shoals. The future of the $51,000,000 U. S. power plant at Muscle Shoals on the Tennessee River in Alabama was as obscure as ever last week. In the Senate, the debate was on a resolution by Senator Norris providing that the U. S. keep the plant, operate it, sell the electricity to citizens for miles around. The Norris resolution also authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to use Muscle Shoals electricity in making nitrates for fertilizer, but the wording of the resolution reflected an opinion that synthetic fertilizer processes are too costly. In the House, contrarily, a committee...
Zonite Products Co. makes antiseptic germicide, advertises its use with disarming frankness. Last week Zonite directors decided to purchase controlling interest in the Agmel Corporation, whose therapeutic products are derived from aguamiel, the sap of the Mexican maguey plant. President Ellery W. Mann of Zonite becomes president of Agmel...
General Motors Corp. ("A family of products & people") last week made arrangements to enter another industrial field. The new product will be storage batteries, to be made in Muncie, Ind., in the manufacturing plant bought last week from Durant Motors...
...power plant would furnish electricity to at least twelve states and should be operated by the government rather than private individuals or corporations, for the dam has direct influence on flood control and navigation. Moreover the government already owns the site and therefore would not have to incur the expense and the consequent higher rates that an outsider would be forced to charge...
...bill pays more attention to the power project, although the plant was originally planned for its nitrate development. Farm aid is now more logically a secondary factor and the power the primary object. Such a power centre is needed in the middle west and if the Senate puts the bill through it will be seizing an opportunity to utilize a white elephant by making him earn his living...