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...administrative engine for planned economy. Modeled after the Port of New York Authority, this independent Federal agency, with its own credit and its own crew, is to undertake what the President had called "the widest experiment ever conducted by a government"-the industrial development of a 640,000-sq. mi. watershed. Its domain starts in the wooded heights of the Cumberland and Great Smoky Mountains, sweeps down past Knoxville and Chattanooga, dips into Alabama at Muscle Shoals, turns north through the rolling farm lands of Tennessee and Kentucky and comes to an end at Paducah on the Ohio. In this...
Chairman Morgan's assigned objectives are as follows: 1) flood control works along the Tennessee River to even up its flow between a March torrent and an October trickle; 2) a 9-ft. channel for navigation from Knoxville to Paducah (650 mi.); 3) reforestation of marginal lands to prevent soil erosion and to supply the next generation with a timber crop; 4) decentralization of industry so that Tennessee Valley residents may live on farms while working in factories; 5) manufacture of fertilizer; 6) production and distribution of cheap hydroelectric power. For these purposes the Tennessee Valley Authority is permitted...
After a bloody battle, Japanese troops mashed their way into Miyun, 50 mi. from Peiping. At one point the Japanese advance reached Tungchow, only 13 mi. from Peiping's walls. To the east, Japanese troops were nearing Lutai, 40 mi. from Tientsin. Unaware of Ambassador Debuchi's statement, an official spokesman for General Kotaro Nakamura, commander of the Japanese garrison in Tientsin, announced...
...Chinese do not show signs of reasonableness, our army must necessarily continue beyond Peiping and Tientsin, and occupy Paotingfu [80 mi. from both] and points even further southward...
...short stories are changing. Yesterday's vogue, "the story with the snapper at the end," says sharp-eyed Authoress Ferber, seems "strangely old-fashioned and unconvincing now." New styles call for front drive, less road clearance, a sharper-tilted wheel. These eight stories will all do 20 mi. to a gallon; two of them will go 75 at a pinch. Some of the upholstery: A day in the frantically hard-working life of a successful actress, far removed from the "glamour" her public imagines her surrounded with. Efficient Fraulein's day off from her opulent Parkavian charges shows...