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...five million dollar project, for which Lyons asked permission for a grant of 45 per cent of the total from the PWA received a setback when the Legislature voted down its part in the proceedings. Lyons said, however, that he would continue fighting for his plan, principal effect of which on Harvardians would be the removal of the pill-box in the center of Harvard square...
...order from PWAdministrator Ickes-acting at President Roosevelt's express bidding-telling a subordinate to give "prompt attention" and "right of way" to two new PWA bridges for Maryland...
...Carpenter of Texas Power & Light, an affiliate of huge Electric Bond & Share Co., penned a similar letter to the Lower Colorado River Authority, TVA of the Southwest. Allegedly sponsoring flood control, LCRA has urged a number of municipalities along the Colorado River to build their own power plants with PWA aid. Texas Power & Light has 1,277 miles of power line serving 13,200 customers in this Texas area, which is as big as Massachusetts and Connecticut combined. Last week, President Carpenter offered to sell this chunk of his system to LCRA, saying "the difficulties which confront power companies, faced...
...this year. In January. B. & O.'s shrewd old President Daniel Willard got an $8,233,000 loan through his good friend, RFC Chairman Jesse Jones. In June, to meet an interest payment, B. & O. sold its nearly forgotten Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, unused for shipping since 1923, to PWA for $2,000,000. Last week, resourceful B. & O. resorted to another expedient. It filed with ICC a plan to 1) postpone nearby bond maturities, 2) reduce interest for eight years by making $11,000,000 of its $31,000,000 in annual charges contingent upon earnings but cumulative. That...
...unexpected assault upon tart old Senator Carter Glass of Virginia. "The reactionary press," said Mr. Ickes, "hails this 'rugged individual' as another Horatius-at-the-Bridge because of his bitter attacks on economic policies of the Government. Yet no Senator comes oftener and with more insistence for PWA grants than this same Senator Glass." From his home in Lynchburg, back cracked Senator Glass, overflowing with indignation and invective: "Secretary Ickes has become a confirmed blackguard, saturated with hate for every member of Congress who voted against spendthrift practices of the New Deal authorities and against projecting the Government...