Word: questions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well, these were stupendous tidings. Ever since the U. S. Government began to build Bonneville Dam (on the Columbia River) with its huge potential output of 502,400 kilowatts, and Grand Coulee Dam farther up the same river with its titanic 1,890,000 kilowatts to come, the looming question in the Northwest has been: Who will buy the power? Enterprising, efficient private utilities already had developed home consumption of electricity in Oregon to a point nearly twice the national average (760 kw-h per customer). Clearly the one answer was to get new industries to open shop within transmission...
Jean Hersholt (cinema's Dr. Dafoe) got Shirley as the Screen Guild Theatre's, Little Miss Christmas, by a simple device. He cornered Jimmy Roosevelt, took him out to the Twentieth Century-Fox lot. Jimmy put the all-important question to Mrs. Termle. "How would you like it, Shirley?" mamma asked...
Last week, as Pete Nehemkis tried (unsuccessfully) to get Mr. Stanley to admit that his firm, managing underwriter for A. T. & T., had parceled out its financing ($580,000,000 since 1935) to a select and fixed group, SEC's quizzer carefully avoided reference to competitive bidding. A question by TNEC Chairman O'Mahoney gave Harold Stanley the opening he was waiting for. With the air of a man starting a lecture, Mr. Stanley sounded off: ". . . The question of competitive bidding is a subject which I would like to go into and talk about at length...