Word: yardsticks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed power rate "yardstick," as developed by Lilienthal, was false because from TVA's rate bases were omitted many costs which private utilities would have had to meet; the power loads built up to bring rates down were built haphazardly, wastefully, with expensive ballyhoo...
...Improper and misleading accounting, reporting and publicity in reference to the 'yardstick...
...second opinion was delivered by Associate Justice Florence Ellinwood Allen, only woman on the U. S. appeals bench, who stands well enough with the Administration to have been mentioned last year as a possible Supreme Court appointee. Sturdy Miss Allen laid down the first judicial yardstick of the lengths to which employers need go in trying to bargain with a union, displaying as much anxiety about quasi-judicial practices as that expressed last week by Charles Evans Hughes (see col. 2). Said she: "The statute merely requires the employer to negotiate sincerely. The sincerity is to be tested...
...South American propaganda broadcasting. In spite of Representative Celler's contention that one Government station will scarcely interfere with the 728 private stations now licensed in the U. S., what particularly pains the broadcasters is the idea of domestic Government broadcasting. It sounds too much like the yardstick principle which is currently turning utility men's hair snowy white...
...first things that put the Government in the power business in the first place was the New Deal's inability to enforce such ideas in the face of the Supreme Court. So-called "yardstick" rates were to be based on the Government's "prudent investment." But the powermen soon found that the Government held down the original cost by the simple expedient of writing off large chunks to such things as flood control or navigation improvement. In the opinion of powermen, who must pay interest on the entire cost of their dams and plants, these write-offs made...