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...Knoxville, having exhibited great delicacy by waiting until the primary was over, the Congressional committee investigating TVA announced it would review the queer-looking claim suit lost by Senator Berry against TVA for an alleged fortune in marble drowned under the waters of Norris Dam. During his campaign, rich Senator Berry had continued to protest his claims were valid, not chiseling. Cried he: "I was in the marble business long before there was a TVA or a President Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
Under floodwater last week lay large parts of the Colorado River valley around Austin, Tex. Mightily displeased were scores of washed-out farmers who turned up at the capital, demanded to know what had happened to the Lower Colorado River Authority's four-dam flood control and power project, engineered by the Federal Bureau of Reclamation with $15,000,000 of PWTA funds. Mightily pleased, on the other hand, was Price Campbell, publicity-wise president of West Texas Utilities Co. which stands to lose a 200-mile circle of its power customers to the Authority. President Campbell thought...
...Campbell snorted: "You can't catch water in a bucket that is already full." Authority Chairman Fritz Englehard retorted that the flood control phase of the project will not be complete until Marshall Ford Dam is finished, 18 months hence. The present dams are not supposed to. control floods, but to produce power. Even so, the uppermost dam, Buchanan, would not have been too full to hold the flood but for inadequate river readings from upstream, which had let floodwaters catch the engineers napping. Dissatisfied flood victims, remembering that the Authority had taken credit for holding back a similar...
...Each State has baffling local problems. Example: In Washington, regulations against the transfer of teachers from county to county prevent 5,000 workers at Grand Coulee Dam from having classes for which they have petitioned...
...undertake pump-priming when the Government cut down. Certainly no private industry primed the pump less than the utilities; they had held up capital expenditures since the start of the New Deal's public-ownership and "death-sentence" deals (see below). Utility officers, in turn, explain the estimated dam of $3,000,000,000 in such expenditures on grounds that they and the investing public are too scared by the Government's power policy to put more money into the business...