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...private powerman who has to pay interest on the entire cost of a dam or a steam station, this arbitrary allocation of Government costs seems thoroughly unfair. Moreover, a public project pays no taxes, which may take as much as 25? from every private power dollar. And after the Ross formula works itself to its 40-year conclusion, the Government apparently will be almost ready to give its power away. Cried the Republican New York Herald Tribune: "Bonneville may be a yardstick to Mr. Ross. To the plain citizen its economics are just slapstick...
...city employes. Few days before at a large 7 a. m. breakfast in the Los Angeles City Hall cafeteria, the Power Bureau's general manager, Ezra Frederick Scattergood, had handed President Addison Blanchard Day of Los Angeles Gas & Electric Corp. a check for $46,340,000. Private Powerman Day had handed Public Powerman Scattergood a deed to all his company's electric properties free & clear of debt. Los Angeles now had the largest municipally-owned power system in the world...
...Private Powerman Day the official transfer was doubly trying. It occurred on the 42nd anniversary of his entrance into the company as a gas salesman. He still had the gas half of Los Angeles Gas & Electric, which is a subsidiary of Pacific Lighting Corp., but the electric business had been sliced off clean. "It was forced on us," said he bitterly. "There was nothing we could do. It broke my heart...
...Public Powerman Scattergood, the $46,000,000 deal crowned a 35-year-old dream. Born 65 years ago on a New Jersey farm which had been in his Quaker family since 1683, Mr. Scattergood learned about power at Rutgers (Class of 1893), became a Master of Mechanical Engineering at Cornell, went South to teach at the Georgia School of Technology. But the tuneful libel on Georgia Tech could be applied only to Engineer Scattergood's health, which was so badly wrecked after two years that he had to ramble off to Southern California...
...Lawyer Baldwin's file the committee's investigators unearthed a copy of a letter to the wife of Powerman Phillips, relating that as a boat gift Mr. Baldwin had sent her husband a bottle of Creme de Menthe with this jingle...