Muscle Shoals: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Sixty-eighth Congress, First Session, on S. 139, S. 2372, S. 2747, S. 3214, and H. R. 518U.S. Government Printing Office, 1924 - Muscle Shoals (Ala.) |
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Page 105
... Major BURNS . $ 17,000,000 . Senator GOODING . How much has the Government already spent at Muscle Shoals on the whole project ? Major BURNS . They have spent $ 115,000,000 to date . Senator HEFLIN . Coming back to the fertilizer ...
... Major BURNS . $ 17,000,000 . Senator GOODING . How much has the Government already spent at Muscle Shoals on the whole project ? Major BURNS . They have spent $ 115,000,000 to date . Senator HEFLIN . Coming back to the fertilizer ...
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... major portion of their heaviest burden . The integrated development of our river systems is thus intimately bound up with flood prevention through storage , agriculture through irrigation , transporta- tion and the generation and wider ...
... major portion of their heaviest burden . The integrated development of our river systems is thus intimately bound up with flood prevention through storage , agriculture through irrigation , transporta- tion and the generation and wider ...
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... Major Burns , who is very familiar with it , and we have had before the committee the engineers actually in charge of the work down there . We can have them again if you want them . Senator RALSTON . Why wouldn't it be the proper thing ...
... Major Burns , who is very familiar with it , and we have had before the committee the engineers actually in charge of the work down there . We can have them again if you want them . Senator RALSTON . Why wouldn't it be the proper thing ...
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... Major Burns , who is here , said . The chairman asked : That depends on something . What is that condition ? Major BURNS . That condition is cheap phosphoric acid . As a matter of fact , the crux of the whole fertilizer possibility ...
... Major Burns , who is here , said . The chairman asked : That depends on something . What is that condition ? Major BURNS . That condition is cheap phosphoric acid . As a matter of fact , the crux of the whole fertilizer possibility ...
Page 224
... major situation is the idea of getting maximum return for the power . But , at the same time , the maximum distribution of fertilizer and ability to make ammunition in time of war - in other words , to build this plant up - is the major ...
... major situation is the idea of getting maximum return for the power . But , at the same time , the maximum distribution of fertilizer and ability to make ammunition in time of war - in other words , to build this plant up - is the major ...
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