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First stop was at Norris, Tenn., where the youngsters spent three days marveling at Norris Dam and affiliated housing projects, hearing about TYA from Director David Eli Lilienthal and his aides. Later, the party saw the New Deal's rural electrification projects in Virginia, its Greenbelt resettlement development in Maryland. In the meantime. Lincoln's students had also spent a day looking over a Georgia Power Co. plant at Tallulah Falls, Ga.. listening to the private power companies' side of the Government-v.-private power story...
Maybe the boy had overheard his father (and namesake) chaffing me for boasting that I had rowed over twelve thousand miles on the Charles River since the Dam was built. I used to row from that beautiful northeast room of the Newell Boathouse. I'm not as deaf as a post. But I was born in the first half of the 19th century, and we are near the end of the first half of the 20th...
...into narrow St. John's River so fast that a waterfall pours up-stream-a plan later half realized in the unfinished $36,000,000 Passamaquoddy power project; of a heart attack; in Boston. With his brother, the late Hugh Lincoln Cooper, he helped plan the Keokuk, Iowa dam across the Mississippi, Wilson Dam, Muscle Shoals power project...
...Injury. Immediate aim of the suit, which Commonwealth & Southern's Wendell P. Willkie and his associates had planned as a last stand in the three-year-old legal fight against TVA, was to stop the sale of electricity generated by the three TVA darns already built (including Wilson Dam started during the War and transferred from the War Department to TVA in 1933); to restrict de-velopment of four dams now under construction and a fifth authorized but not yet begun; to prevent TVA from getting Congressional funds for four more dams. TVA attorneys maintained that the dams were...
...began corralling mineral leases in the Tennessee Valley in 1932 with a Knoxville real-estate man named C. A. Harris as partner and W. H. Ford, a local promoter, as their agent. Ford continued to sign leases after President-elect Roosevelt first submitted his plan for a series of dams in the Tennessee Valley in substantially the form of the present TVA. Last of the 252 leases, each calling for a consideration of $1 and mostly providing for minimum royalties up to 25? an acre if mineral production was not begun within twelve months, was registered on March...