Word: powermen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battle to hold onto its facilities in Paducah, Glasgow and Princeton, Ky., where residents are trying to buy the plants, then buy power from TVA at a 30%-to-50% saving in electricity bills. But the once-widespread bitterness against the TVA has been largely muted, especially since private powermen no longer fear it will spread over the nation. TVA's congressional bond amendment has a clause limiting its expansion to no more than five miles beyond its 1957 boundaries...
...combine of Detroit Edison Co., 17 other utilities and seven manufacturing firms - was challenged by a group of unions led by Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers. While they raised the issue of safety, their more important aim was to push the cause of public atomic power. Private-powermen say the unions want to force the plant to be shifted to a remoter area, where industry could not afford to build it, thus force the Government...