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Dwight F. Davis, Secretary of War, made a tentative contract with the Alabama Power Co. for the disposal of hydro-electric power at Muscle Shoals, to continue for 18 months or longer; approved of the use of Italian Carrara marble for the headstones to mark American soldiers' graves in overseas cemeteries, despite the protests of U. S. marble merchants whose bids were excessively high. F. Trubee Davison took oath of office as Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation; became acting Secretary of War when Secretary Davis and Assistant Secretary MacNider left Washington; flew over the Capital as his first...
...greatest producer in the world was not of the U. S. This was the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario, Canada?3,298,347,874 k.w.h...
...Queen Wilhelmina, the Prince Consort and Premier Colijn toured the flooded districts in a motorboat followed by a second boat loaded with provisions for distribution to marooned sufferers. The floods in the valleys of the Lek and Waal were described as -"catastrophic." Numberless fresh water dykes burst. The enormous hydro-electric pumps installed against just such an emergency were barely able to save the country from irretrievable damage...
...cents on the dollar, the agreement had hardly been made known when Wall Street made plans for lending money to Italy at high rates of interest. The answer to this, so far as it goes, is that the loans Italy gets from Wall Street will be used in building hydro-electric plants and other improvements that will yield a return to pay off the loans, but that Italy will never get any return on the loans from the U. S. Government, which were shot into the air in the direction of the Austrian Army...
...Muscle Shoals, Ala., the world's largest hydro-electric plant -600,000 h. p. in spring floods, 100,000 h. p. minimum-is now being built. Its construction is under the astute eye of Colonel Hugh L. Cooper, one of the two brothers responsible for the Keokuk and Niagara plants, not to mention various South American projects of great magnitude which they have designed, separately and together...