Word: powerman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between a speech at Omaha and a speech to the American Legion convention at Kansas City, Paul Vories McNutt returned to Washington to keep another speaking engagement with the House Committee on Defense Migration. Said Man-powerman McNutt to the committee: "It is my considered judgment, based on the best available knowledge of the manpower situation, that some type of national-service legislation is inevitable...
...Public Powerman Morris Llewellyn Cooke, the U.S. expert appointed to set a value on the exproperties, and Mexico's still more expert Manuel J. Zevada agreed that the entire U.S. stake in Mexican oil was worth $23,995,991 ($18,391,641 of it for Standard Oil of New Jersey...
Unlike his namesake in the steel industry (see p. 69), Powerman Olds has been predicting a shortage all along. Last December FPC forecast that the U.S. defense program would run into a 1,500,000-kilowatt power shortage in 1942. Even after substantial capacity expansions had been planned, its March estimate was an 800,000-kilowatt shortage next year. Now even more power-consuming aluminum plants are planned for defense (see p. 20). Droughts or no droughts, it looked last week as if the next big defense bottleneck might be power...
With the loss of Eugene, Powerman Raver began to turn his interest from PUDs and Municipals to industrial customers. On that front he had better luck. The luck: defense expansion, which found BPA (unlike most private utilities) with plenty of firm power to spare. First, he got Aluminum Co. to build a new plant in Vancouver; soon he lured other new industries to the quiet Columbia Valley. BPA, thanks to its industrial clients, now has contracts (of varying length) totaling well over...
Last week, at Consolidated's annual stockholders' meeting, Powerman Carlisle got his answer. It came from 32,000 stockholders, holding some 30% of the utility's 13,655,617 shares outstanding, who replied to his query. Their vote: for competitive bidding, 11%; against...