Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Resources Board junked, then his National Defense Power Committee. In came an old body, the National Power Policy Committee, headed by New Deal Goalie Harold Ickes. The plans of this Committee are largely conceived in the fertile head of its General Counsel, scholarly, drawling Ben Cohen. It plans to study U. S.'regions in need of new generating capacity...
...operating company construction (forced by threatening power shortages)-without any holding company shakeup-may reach somewhere close to $600,000,000 (against perhaps $500,000,000 this year), but is not likely to go higher. Some plans already outlined: > Companies in the Electric Bond and Share system have budgeted $80,000,000 of new construction for 1940 ($66,000,000 authorized this year). > Wendell Willkie's Commonwealth & Southern system (which two weeks ago sold more property to TVA-at a loss of about one-third on book value) is spending an extra $22,000,000 over & above its normal...
Jesus is represented only by a deep, mellifluent voice, speaking parables in Biblical language. It is His disembodied Voice, trailing across the countryside, followed by His disciples, preaching the gospel and working miracles, that gives The 'Great Commandment its nerve-tingling, eerie power. Good shot: the faces of unbelievers changing from scorn to incredulity as Jesus tells the story of the Good Samaritan (whom they regard as an Englishman does a Liverpool Irishman) who did not pass by on the other side...
...Sthleymen failed to get under way with their usual scoring power until the second half. Meanwhile the Indians had put over two scores and registered the conversions. The last Dartmouth touchdown was registered in the third period, the point after missing fire, and finally a field goal was added in the final period of the game...
Their program includes support of a popular war referendum amendment to the Constitution "to take the war-making power out of Congress and put it into the hands of the people," the statement said...