Word: controller
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Four of the most important conservation problems at present, according to Maass, are power control, soil improvement, the limitation of irrigation from Bureau of Reclamation projects to farms of 160 acres and less, and conflict between the bureau and the Army Engineers...
...defense of federal power projects, Maass argued that the government can afford to work on an entire river and provide for both flood control and hydro-electric power. Provide companies usually build dams for power, since flood control brings in no revenue...
Congress will probably get a bill this season for formation of a Missouri Valley Authority, for an organization which can worry about flood control and irrigation at the same time, and end the incredible overlapping, inefficiency, and boondoggling of Pick-Sloan. The only people hurt by MVA will be a few manufactures who like to ship by water and the many contractors who are cleaning up on the present plan. If these men can be headed off and MVA finally approved, the country stands to save a few billion dollars...
...Government was spending at a rate of about $2 billion a year to support crops and keep them off the market. With more than $3 billion tied up in crop loans and purchases, it was plain that the whole support program was rapidly becoming unworkable. The spotty attempts to control crops by cutting acreage had flopped. Despite such cuts, farm mechanization, better planting and fertilizing techniques had pushed harvests to the point where ever-increasing surpluses seemed inevitable. When Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan brought out a new plan of control which would, in effect, have permitted the Government...
...passed a bill to spend $7 billion on 800,000 dwelling units over the next several years. The Federal Reserve Board, which had been cautiously tightening up on credit to fight inflation, belatedly reversed its field and loosened credit. Wartime's Regulation W, which had kept a tight control on installment buying, expired-to the loud hurrahs of most merchants...