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...Utilitymen angry at Government competition got a laugh last week when Government's public-powerite Harold L. Ickes quacked back that a $19,000,000 hydroelectric development by Pacific Gas & Electric was unfair competition with Government...
...Other utilitymen did not point to it with pride. Utility-baiters called it an octopus. Roly-poly Utilitycoon Howard Colwell Hopson and his partner, John I. Mange, called it Associated Gas & Electric...
...Wisconsin utility commission, took over TVA. Member of a three-man board, he dominated it from the start, became chairman two years ago when old Arthur Ernest Morgan, onetime president of Antioch (work-learn) College, was fired after a spectacular battle against Lilienthal policies. From the start utilitymen never doubted that Dave Lilienthal intended to run every private utility out of the Tennessee Valley...
Proposals. The collaboration with private utilitymen to which Director Lilienthal objected was a conference called at the White House in the autumn of 1936 at Chairman Morgan's suggestion, at which Commonwealth & Southern's Wendell L. Willkie and other utilitymen discussed a "power pool" for merging TVA and private power systems. David Lilienthal has proposed a version of the power pool himself but at the time it looked to him as though Chairman Morgan was consorting with the enemy. David Lilienthal considered himself justified in his opinion, inasmuch as five months before the White House "love feast" (whose...
...claims as the commission. But his main job was to hand out to reporters a statement containing his own formula for dealing with Mr. Willkie and ending TVA's war with the private utilities. In it, after dexterously shifting blame for the trouble to litigation instituted by the utilitymen themselves, he proposed that the TVA should negotiate for the purchase of private power facilities on behalf of 400 communities in the TVA area. To this Mr. Willkie, who last year dramatically begged the Government to buy his properties instead of ruining them, replied that he would be "delighted...