Muscle Shoals: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, Seventieth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 8305, H.R. 7744, H.R. 6031, H.R. 10028, and H.J. Res. 105. Tuesday, January 25, 1928 to Monday, March 19, 1928 |
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... MCSWAIN . I appreciate your candor there , Mr. Bell , because that is going to be charged up to you in the first place as primary power , you call it , at cost ? Mr. BELL . Yes . Mr. MCSWAIN . Then when you undertake to market it in a ...
... MCSWAIN . I appreciate your candor there , Mr. Bell , because that is going to be charged up to you in the first place as primary power , you call it , at cost ? Mr. BELL . Yes . Mr. MCSWAIN . Then when you undertake to market it in a ...
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... MCSWAIN . As somewhat the father of this reimbursement idea , I am not willing to have it laughed out of court , and I want to explain just why I think it might get through Congress . Either this plant is going to be operated through ...
... MCSWAIN . As somewhat the father of this reimbursement idea , I am not willing to have it laughed out of court , and I want to explain just why I think it might get through Congress . Either this plant is going to be operated through ...
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... MCSWAIN . I think Mr. Bell would agree to that . There is no doubt about that . I think Mr. Phillips agreed to spend six or eight million dollars . Mr. SPEAKS . If Cove Creek Dam and all the power possibilities associated with Muscle ...
... MCSWAIN . I think Mr. Bell would agree to that . There is no doubt about that . I think Mr. Phillips agreed to spend six or eight million dollars . Mr. SPEAKS . If Cove Creek Dam and all the power possibilities associated with Muscle ...
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... MCSWAIN . Yes , the 8 per cent I turn free right now . only asking you to amortize Dam No. 2 . We are Mr. BELL . Now , Mr. McSwain , you are going to do this ; you are going to take away everything Senator Norris took away and then you ...
... MCSWAIN . Yes , the 8 per cent I turn free right now . only asking you to amortize Dam No. 2 . We are Mr. BELL . Now , Mr. McSwain , you are going to do this ; you are going to take away everything Senator Norris took away and then you ...
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... MCSWAIN . And in a bad year you lose ? Mr. BELL . In a bad year we lose . Mr. MCSWAIN . Do you make more than 8 per cent on the turnover ? Mr. BELL . Yes . Mr. MCSWAIN . Six per cent on the plant , on the investment , and 8 per cent on ...
... MCSWAIN . And in a bad year you lose ? Mr. BELL . In a bad year we lose . Mr. MCSWAIN . Do you make more than 8 per cent on the turnover ? Mr. BELL . Yes . Mr. MCSWAIN . Six per cent on the plant , on the investment , and 8 per cent on ...
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Alabama Power Alabama Power Co amendment American Cyanamid Co ammonia ammonium ammonium phosphate amortization amount and/or BELL build capacity cent CHAIRMAN cheaper Clinch River committee concentrated fertilizer Congress construction contract cost Cove Creek Dam cyanamide process Dam Numbered demised Department Doctor COTTRELL Doctor Woods equipment estimate farmer board figures fixed nitrogen GARRETT Government hereof HILL of Alabama HOFFMAN horsepower hydroelectric industry installation interest investment JAMES lease lessee lessor Madden bill Major COINER Major MILES Major WATKINS manufacture of fertilizer MCSWAIN ment Muscle Shoals national defense navigation nitrogen fixation operation payments phosphate phosphoric acid power house primary power production proposed proposition purpose question QUIN reason secondary power Secretary of Agriculture Secretary of War sell Senator NORRIS steam plant synthetic process Tennessee River thing tion transmission lines WAINWRIGHT water power Wilson Dam words WURZBACH
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