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...Starrett),* in love with the daughter (Sally Blane) of a railroad president. By refusing to try the train, B. J. Dexter (William Farnum), an obdurate and stupid tycoon, precipitates a broken heart for his daughter and a case of infantile paralysis for his son, Allan, an engineer at Boulder Dam. This makes it necessary for The Silver Streak, with Tom Caldwell at the controls and B. J. Dexter biting his knuckles in its luxurious caboose, to race from Chicago to Boulder City at 100 m. p. h., carrying an "iron lung", to save Allan Dexter's life. Before it reaches...
...Citing the enumerated powers of Congress he declared: "If the program of the Tennessee Valley Authority involves only the salvaging of excess or unused electric power, produced in aid of its operations in improving the navigation of the Tennessee River, or in relation to its operations at the Wilson Dam, or the Nitrate plants, there located for the National defense, or for the benefit of lands owned by it in the government reservations, at or in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, its right to dispose of such excess electric power cannot be questioned...
Twelve miles southeast of Hot Springs, Ark. on the Ouachita River is a power dam. Behind the dam is a good-sized lake. In the lake is an island and on the island is Couchwood, summer home of Harvey Crowley Couch. Mr. Couch built not only the rambling redwood log cabin that accommodates 25 guests in every luxury but also the dam that made the lake. The lake he named after his daughter Catherine; the dam, which he built for his Arkansas Light & Power Co., he named after onetime State Republican Boss Remmel...
...years ago the President visited the spot with Senator George Norris, assured him that his Federal power dream was going to come true. Last week, with the dam a third completed, the President turned to TVA Chairman Arthur E. Morgan to exult: "It's great stuff, isn't it!" Dr. Morgan remarked that the lake behind the dam will have an 800-mi. shoreline. "If we start to rent cottage sites along the shoreline we'll make a fortune," joshed the President. Down the bluff they drove to see some workers, whom President Roosevelt addressed as future...
Next stop was Town Creek, Ala., and Joe Wheeler Dam. So full was the President of the TVA sights he had seen that by the time he reached Tupelo, Miss., he was moved to make an extemporaneous speech. Extolling the local citizenry for being the first to sign a contract for cheap TVA electricity for its municipal power system, the President observed...