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...weeks ago, a Virginia power commission received two requests for permission to build power plants. One was from a private company which wanted to build a dam; the other was from a public company that was planning a steam generating plant. Both groups are planning to serve the same area...
Public ownership of electric utilities occurs in two forms. First, there are the federally-built projects such as Hoover Dam, the TVA, and dams in Washington and California. The electricity produced by these plants is either sold to private distributors or brought to the consumer through publicly-owned lines. Secondly, there are municipally-owned power plants, mostly financed by the Rural Electrification Administration. Together, these methods produce about 20 percent of the nation's power...
With Confederate flags waving, an inspired North Carolina squad held Notre Dame even for half a game (6-6) in Yankee Stadium; then the dam burst and Carolina was swamped, 42-6. Already headed for the Rose Bowl, California took a deep breath and breezed by Oregon, 41-14. Oklahoma's split-T formation crackled and snapped to send a strong Missouri team down, 27-7, for its worst defeat of the year. The only one of the four that got a good scare was Army. In Philadelphia's Franklin Field, desperate Pennsylvania switched to a two-platoon...
Crooked Canyon. According to the Smith hypothesis, the South could not find peace; its guilt drove it to a collective persecution complex. "Beyond the mountains was the North: the Land of Dam-yankees, where live People Who Cause All of Our Trouble; and at the end of the North was Wall Street, that fabulous crooked canyon of evil winding endlessly through the Southern mind which is, like the dark race, secretly visited by those who talk loudest against...
...topic of elections. The students, reading about the low numbers of registered voters in their town, went out, rang doorbells, and played a part in increasing the registrations for the November 1948 elections by 4,000. An English class in Fortuna. fascinated by the building of a new dam in their county, interviewed engineers, studied blueprints, took pictures, and wrote and sold a magazine article on their experience. In San Diego, a science teacher said...