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Marble Bait. Chairman Morgan's ammunition was an extraordinary set of mineral leases for the exploitation of marble deposits on land flooded by the construction of the Authority's Norris Dam. One of the chief leaseholders is none other than Tennessee's loud, egregious Senator George Leonard Berry, who bought them from farmers in the district for an immediate cash consideration of about $1 apiece. But George Berry has been a potent figure in the Roosevelt Administration and when he filed complaints against the TVA for damages on his marble properties, Directors Morgan and Lilienthal, meeting according...
Centre of the damage was the Santa Ana River, a gravel-filled gulley which usually dribbles placidly through the Santa Ana Mountains, 35 miles southeast of the city, across 20 miles of farming country to the sea just south of Long Beach. Last week the Santa Ana burst a dam at Fairmont Lake, roared five feet deep through the streets of Riverside. On the flatland it became a muddy torrent whose waters spread out ten miles wide, turning orchards, farms and villages into a churning sea in which 15 people drowned...
Clever Mr. Lever countered with "Vote for Lever and dam the flowing tide." Lever won the election...
...traditions of highwaymen." Shaking their fists from the valley are Farmerette Olivia de Havilland, fiery -Planter Claude Rains and a pack of farmers. The ensuing battle is long, bloody, rough on romance. But the courts finally come through with a restraining order, which the farmers execute by blasting a dam, washing out the mining crowd in one great, glistening, gold-tinted Technicolor flood...
...addition to the Tennessee Valley development, the New Deal is engaged in completing a gigantic program to produce electric power (1 in the Gulf of Lower California, 2 at Bonneville Dam in Oregon, 3 at Memphis, Tennessee, 4 in North Florida, 5 at Passamaquoddy, Maine...