Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simply has no funds to administer any program beyond next June 30," said Federal Works Administrator John M. Carmody, explaining why he must fire half his staff of 10/417 by January i, wind up all PWA public housing, power and similar projects by the end of fiscal...
Count Ciano could guess what the three had to say, and he obviously did not want to hear it: he must do all in his power to stop the rolling stone before it gathered an avalanche to swallow them all, as Mari of Peace Mussolini did this time last year when he persuaded Hitler to call off his Army before Munich. Count Ciano's answer, heartily concurred in by Premier Mussolini...
...come last year, London might have been the scene of one of the most decisive battles in history. Modern Nazi bombing planes would have strafed it mercilessly. If they could have wrecked its essential services by perhaps a fortnight of intensive bombing-wrecked its communications, its power supply, its waterworks and sanitary facilities until plague stalked the streets and 10,000,000 human beings were thrown into horror-stricken disorder-the British Government might have been forced to make peace even at the cost of surrendering the proud British fleet...
Wendell Willkie surrendered with the honors of war. He marched off with $78,425,095 in payment for Commonwealth & Southern's subsidiary, Tennessee Electric Power Co.-a pretty good price considering that T.E.P. was threatened with slow strangulation by the competition of Government-subsidized Tennessee Valley Authority power. Out of the sale price holders of T.E.P. bonds and preferred stock were paid off at par, about $8,000,000 was left for C. & S., owner of all but a few shares of the common...
...towns and cooperatives with checks totaling $33,696,795. First was Mayor Thomas L. Cummings of Nashville, who had been chivied by the Nashville Tennesseean and public opinion into following Tennessee's move to general public ownership. Said he, unmindful of TVAsters who stood near by: "Tennessee Electric Power always has given us the very best service. We regret that it is leaving the State of Tennessee...