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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these present moments, no spiritual leader, no civil leader can move forward on a specific plan to terminate destruction and build anew. Yet the time for that will surely come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: It Shall Come to Pass | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

Last week Portland's afternoon quiet was abruptly shattered. From Dr. Paul J. Raver, the brisk administrator of Bonneville Dam, came the biggest news the Northwest has had in many a noontime. Aluminum Co. of America had contracted to build a $3,000,000 plant on the Columbia River eight miles from Portland and two miles west of Vancouver, Wash., use 32,500 kilowatts of Bonneville power (to be transmitted over aluminum cables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: High Noon | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...Portland, to all Oregon and to Seattle as well, these were stupendous tidings. Ever since the U. S. Government began to build Bonneville Dam (on the Columbia River) with its huge potential output of 502,400 kilowatts, and Grand Coulee Dam farther up the same river with its titanic 1,890,000 kilowatts to come, the looming question in the Northwest has been: Who will buy the power? Enterprising, efficient private utilities already had developed home consumption of electricity in Oregon to a point nearly twice the national average (760 kw-h per customer). Clearly the one answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: High Noon | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

Last week Congressman Melvin J. Maas, of St. Paul, Minn., proposed that the U. S. Navy build 80,000-ton battleships - nearly twice the size of two mighty monsters now on the way. Horrified admirals paid attention to Mr. Maas only because: 1) he is the ranking Republican on the House Naval Affairs Committee; and 2) his remarks were symptomatic of a tendency on the part of Navy-minded Congressmen to dream for themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Matching Game | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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