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...Government, got Secretary Ickes to refuse the loan of Director John W. Finch of the U. S. Bureau of Mines as conciliator, insisted on a condemnation commission. When last week, nearly three months after the start of hearings during which witnesses for the Berry interests presented evidence by which the value of the leases could be estimated variously between $1,500,000 and $87,000,000, the three-man commission took a good look, decided that it was worth not $87,000,000 nor $1,500,000, but nothing...
...considered himself justified in his opinion, inasmuch as five months before the White House "love feast" (whose results were inconclusive), 19 southern utility companies, including four Commonwealth & Southern subsidiaries, had sought to tie up TVA's power program by challenging its constitutionality. Result was a decision by a three-man Federal tribunal in Chattanooga last January which flatly upheld the constitutionality of the contracts under which TVA has sold some $3,500,000 worth of power to 32 co-operatives and municipalities and nine industrial corporations, cleared the way for Director Lilienthal to fulfill contracts with other municipalities (including...
Lucky scholars will be rewarded in cash, the highest prize being $50. Although individual competition is expected in the coming encounter, sponsors of the project are encouraging three-man teams...
Among the first and most feverishly idealistic projects undertaken by the League of Nations was to send a three-man commission to Persia (now Iran) to investigate the opium traffic. This task was entrusted to Frederic A. Delano, onetime president of the Wabash R. R., one of whose nephews is now President of the U. S. He ran into a rather remarkable situation and, rather remarkably, was able to do something very practical about...
...Southeast (30,000 acres). It was thus a foregone conclusion that when George Berry began buying up mineral leases among farmers in the area later flooded by the TVA's Norris Dam, the marble he was looking for would turn out to be remarkable. Last week before a three-man condemnation commission in Knoxville George Berry estimated that his marble, now largely under water, might be worth...