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Black Canyon Dam...
Please permit me to correct a statement in May 22 issue: "From time out of memory the Colorado River canyon in which the Government today is building the world's biggest dam was called Boulder...
This canyon is today, and I believe for a good many years has been, known as Black Canyon. Boulder Canyon is a considerable distance up stream, and was abandoned as a dam site after the preliminary surveys. I would suggest, for the benefit of your Eastern readers and the Secretary of the Interior, that you publish a correction...
Life blood of the whole Tennessee watershed plan is power. Its heart is the Wartime plant at Muscle Shoals. There the Government has sunk nearly $165,000,000 in two nitrate plants, idle since 1919, and the colossal Wilson Dam, finished in 1925. What to do with this national defense investment provided a 13-year controversy ended by last week's bill-signing. Henry Ford bid for it and was turned down. Alabama Power Co. unsuccessfully offered to take it off the Government's hands. American Cyanamid Co.'s bid was also rejected...
...many a morning newssheet appeared parallel accounts 1) reporting the Administration's plans for raising prices and relaxing the anti-trust laws to prevent useless competition; 2) reporting that Secretary of the Interior Ickes, having opened ten sealed bids for 400,000 barrels of cement for Boulder Dam. found them all uniformly $1.29 a barrel, up 20? since two month? ago. Angered, Mr. Ickes demanded that the Federal Trade Commission investigate whether the companies had entered into illegal price-fixing agreements. Not inconsistent were the two Government actions, but evidence of the Government's dual interest in industry...