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...development and organization of the new oil fields have already taken place under state ownership. Such a change as is proposed by the administration would disrupt the whole system and delay the development of the area until a new federal agency could be organized with an experienced personnel. The shift in ownership would also cause a tremendous number of legal disputes. This argument adds up to the statement that a removal of tideland ownership from the states would involve a great loss to the economy as a whole and a delay in the development of important oil resources. Since there...
Stewart's tubelike conveyor would run on trestles 22 feet above the ground, with "transfer points" (see cut) to shift the coal and iron up & down elevations in the land. Inside the tube would be two belts, one carrying coal north from the coal-mining towns along the Ohio River, the other carrying ore south from lake freighters to the steel mills. There would be enough room in between the belts for workers to tend the machinery. In this way Stewart hoped to move 29 million tons of coal, 30 million tons of iron ore and 3 million tons...
...Single Shift. The power shortage was born during the war, when private utilities had to cancel their expansion programs. It became worse under the demands of the postwar boom. Not only did private industry step up its power consumption by 13%, but householders increased their demands with the installation of new washing machines, television sets, and a dozen other electrical gadgets that they had not been able to buy before...
...seven years, the utility companies have added 6,000,000 customers to their service, and have almost doubled the total amount of current they feed to all consumers. On top of that, industry has changed from three shifts a day, which spread the load, to the single shift, which concentrates it at one time. The result has been that most companies now have only a 4% emergency reserve of power...
...alleviate the present crowding in most of the United States' large cities and to make urban re-development possible, Perkins strongly urged a shift of population away from cities and to new smaller communities which should be built in outlying areas...