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...Boulder Dam, as a power-and-flood project, moved a long notch toward reality last week when President Hoover asked Congress to make an initial appropriation of $10,600,000 to commence construction at Black Canyon on the Colorado river...
...Angeles, of the Metropolitan Water District and of Southern California Edison Co., signed contracts with the U. S. for 57% of the 650,000 horsepower to be generated. Over 50 years they will pay the U. S. as rental a sum equal to the cost of the dam ($165,000,000) plus 4%. The Government will erect the $21,000,000 power plant at the dam (TIME, Feb. 10). Under the law no work could begin until the U. S. had these power contracts guaranteeing reimbursement of the investment cost...
...liberal, especially when compared with his Farmer-Labor colleague, Senator Henrik Shipstead. He voted for Tax Reduction (1926, 1928, 1930), Reapportionment (1929), Farm Relief (1927, 1928, 1929), Flood Control (1928), the Jones (heavier Prohibition penalties) Law (1929), the Navy's 15-cruiser bill (1929), Radio Control (1928), Boulder Dam...
...Muscle Shoals Corp. of the U. S.," composed of three members appointed by the President to operate the plant, sell power to States and municipalities, experiment with fertilizer nitrates by using any private process filed with the U. S. Patent Office. A $32,000,000 dam was to be constructed above Muscle Shoals at Cove Creek to stabilize the Tennessee's flow...
...President Hoover views the power generated at Boulder Dam as an "unavoidable byproduct" of flood relief, irrigation, reclamation...