Word: yardsticks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right to fight private power companies by duplicating their distribution systems and, for an indefinite period of time, to cut electric rates regardless of any so-called yardstick of costs...
...investment RFChairman Jesse Jones last March ousted five directors of Public Utilities Securities Corp. including Promoter Clarke, replaced them with his own men. For a few terrifying months it looked to utilitarians as if the Government were going to turn the $300,000,000 power system into a yardstick and run it as it pleased...
...Although when he was a lawyer in Little Rock, many of his best clients were utility companies, although Harvey Couch, potent Arkansas utilitarian, is a better personal friend of his than Franklin Roosevelt, Leader Robinson loyally voted for the TVAmendments to enlarge and improve the President's power yardstick, even more loyally paired his vote to help the Senate approve (45-10-44) the "death sentence" on utility holding companies...
These things struck at the heart of the argument for TVA as a yardstick for private power rates. By its write-down of 62% on plant and equipment TVA can make a showing of breaking even on rates that a private company could offer only at loss. Similarly with depreciation, on the present 10%-of-gross basis, TVA will have to get more than ten times as much revenue to make an adequate depreciation allowance. Mr. McCarl commented: "There is very little basis for assuming that revenues will ever reach such a figure...
...forget a few points. 1. In gaining admission to English 22 and English A-2 (which courses would probably be called the "first" step) the selection would still rest with the instructor; obviously only a part of those applying would have been measured by the English A-1 yardstick. (2) In the three "higher" courses, 12, 31, and 5, the applicant is likely to find a gradation rule a boomerang. As it is now, the instructors in these courses do not necessarily require a year in A-2 or 22. If they feel that a man is ready...