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...statement is filled with reckless assertions. It may be that Mr. Ford ... is not himself possessed of the full facts of the situation." He then explained: 1) that the Gorgas plant cost less than $5,000,000 of the hundred millions expended at Muscle Shoals; 2) that under the contract made by the Wilson Administration with the Alabama Power Co. the Government had the choice of selling the Gorgas plant for $3,500,000 or junking it, which would have yielded about $1,000,000. He continued: " I have never opposed Mr. Ford's securing the use of this waterpower...
...Alabama Power Co. finally demanded that the plant be sold to it or taken off. Secretary of War Weeks (in charge of Muscle Shoals) notified Mr. Ford and Mr. Ford kept silence. On Sept. 24 the Gorgas plant was sold to the Power Co. under the terms of the contract...
...moving pirate has raided the community. All that is needed to complete the picture is a black flag flying from the radiator of his motor truck. Careless undergraduates who left last spring with-out, making definite contracts to have their furniture moved are now being charged out of all reason. The work has been done and the contractor finds himself in a well-nigh impregnable position. He urges that he has fulfilled his contract, and that the time of payment is at hand...
Here is a situation which deserves the intervention of the authorities. It would be a matter of no great difficulty for the college to give one firm a contract for all student moving, at a specified price for each piece of furniture. The amount of work to be done would make such a contract profitable, and would reduce greatly the cost to the individual student. And the moving could be charge on the term bill on the report of the hall janitor, just as readily as the telephone and electric light bills...
...that this condition is the students' fault for not driving better bargains is not very helpful. The absorbing thought of the last week of college is to get out of Cambridge just as quickly as possible; next fall seems far off, and the desire to make a reasonable moving contract is very faint. Perhaps any action of the College would border on paternalism, but considering the general confusion and excitment during the last few weeks and the necessity for prompt and untroubled concentration in the fall, such action is certainly warranted...