Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among some Berlin wiseacres there was gossip that Dr. Goebbels would be shorn of his power late this month by Führer Hitler. The Führer was said to be contemplating far-reaching changes in Nazi administration on January 30, the sixth anniversary of Nazi rule. Having failed to give his usual Christmas broadcast to Germany's children, Dr. Goebbels rallied for New Year's, and in a firm, clear voice expressed the general feeling in Germany that 1938 had been a great year for the Nazis. Said the doctor: "Never has it been so hard...
...only hobby nowadays is the propagation of biologic truth-which, says Oscar Riddle, provides man with his "just hope for grandeur and power, and happiness." No cloistered, secretive scientist, he constantly sallies forth to preach the necessity of wider understanding of biological research...
...seasoned promoter who helped put together Montana Power Co., Banker Myers was discovered by James Delmage Ross when that alert public utilitarian was trying to raise money for the municipal system he managed in Seattle. After Mr. Ross was turned down by PWA and cold-shouldered by bigtime financiers, Mr. Myers raised $22,500,000 for him. When Mr. Ross went on to SEC, and Los Angeles started looking around for $47,000,000 for a municipal utility system, he put Mr. Myers in the way of that job. Few months before leaving SEC to administer Washington's Bonneville...
Nebraska's "little TVA," a combination of three hydroelectric projects financed by $60,000,000 of PWA funds, encountered, besides charges of bad engineering, much the same sort of opposition as big TVA- suits, injunctions, bitter antagonism from already established power companies. As in the case of big TVA it finally boiled down to how the PWA "hydros" could market their power. The private companies were not interested in pulling the chestnuts out of the fire. Little TVA then considered building its own distributing system, which probably would mean ruin for all concerned. Then Guy Myers entered...
Last week, having labored to level local obstacles and brought all the utilities except big Nebraska Power Co. into line, Banker Myers rejoiced at a milestone which seemed to assure complete success for the "Myers Deal." The Federal Power Commission approved the sale to his clients of the Nebraska part of Iowa-Nebraska Light & Power Co., second biggest in the State, for $20,195,991-a compromise figure considerably higher than FPC's cost valuation but slightly under Iowa-Nebraska's original cost valuation...