Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next nine years. This program was chiefly one of replacement but pacific citizens objected so strenuously that the bill was scrapped last month by the House Naval Affairs Committee and replaced by a 16-ship program to cost only some $264,000,000, reserving to the President the power to suspend construction in case of another international disarmament conference. The House received this bill last fortnight but it had to wait its turn to be debated...
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...
Boulder Dam. Farther off than solution of the Muscle Shoals deadlock was the Boulder Dam project on the Colorado River. Here more "power pirates" figured, but not as prominently. Congress was delaying action until the seven States drained and watered by the Colorado should agree among themselves what they want...
Suppose, as a test of national issues, we take the chief issues presented to Congress by the President in his last two messages. Those issues are: 1. Tax reduction. 2. Water power, as represented at Muscle Shoals and Boulder Dam. 3. National defense. 4. Tariff. 5. Industrial relations. 6. Prohibition. 7. Farm relief. 8. Reorganization of the Government. 9. Foreign policy...
...Water power. \ Smith would break sharply with Mr. Coolidge, the Republican party, any conceivable nominee of the Republican party, and three fourths of his own docile party in Congress on this issue. Water power is one of Smith's major intersts and major issues. As safely as anything can be predicted of him as President, he would demand government operation of the power plants at Muscle Shoals and, if they are built, at Boulder...