Muscle Shoals: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, Seventy-first Congress, Second Session. February 6 to April 11, 1930 |
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... additional money involved in the project outlined in our offer , which called for the construction of Dam No. 3 and Cove Creek . But it was my opinion that Congress would not agree to reduce the fertilizer guarantee from the 50,000,000 ...
... additional money involved in the project outlined in our offer , which called for the construction of Dam No. 3 and Cove Creek . But it was my opinion that Congress would not agree to reduce the fertilizer guarantee from the 50,000,000 ...
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... ; in other words , what I am saying , when I say 280,000 horsepower , is that I am already de- pending not only on operating the steam plant , but installing the additional unit . Mr. DOUGLAS . I see . Mr. BELL . I 14 MUSCLE SHOALS.
... ; in other words , what I am saying , when I say 280,000 horsepower , is that I am already de- pending not only on operating the steam plant , but installing the additional unit . Mr. DOUGLAS . I see . Mr. BELL . I 14 MUSCLE SHOALS.
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... additional generating equipment , and also for the Government to build a suitable transmission line to connect this power station with nitrate plant No. 2. Dam No. 3 is also included , but Dam No. 3 is in the future ; it has yet to be ...
... additional generating equipment , and also for the Government to build a suitable transmission line to connect this power station with nitrate plant No. 2. Dam No. 3 is also included , but Dam No. 3 is in the future ; it has yet to be ...
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... addition to that , there is included nitrate plant No. 1 , which was built there on the other side of Shef- field during the war . It operates by the synthetic process , or one of the synthetic processes . It has never been operated ...
... addition to that , there is included nitrate plant No. 1 , which was built there on the other side of Shef- field during the war . It operates by the synthetic process , or one of the synthetic processes . It has never been operated ...
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... additional generating equipment that we are required to install . And the total amount , as I recall , that that leaves , on which we are paying 4 per cent , will be approxi- mately $ 37,000,000 , or something like that ; although the ...
... additional generating equipment that we are required to install . And the total amount , as I recall , that that leaves , on which we are paying 4 per cent , will be approxi- mately $ 37,000,000 , or something like that ; although the ...
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Air Nitrates Corporation Alabama American Cyanamid American Cyanamid Co ammonia ammonium nitrate amortization amount and/or bases or fertilizers BELL bill BRAND capacity Captain RILEY Carbide cent Chilean nitrate Clinch River committee concentrated fertilizer Congress construction contract cost Cove Creek Dam cyanamide process Doctor COTTRELL Doctor HOWARD Doctor KNIGHT DOUGLAS equipment estimate fertilizer bases figures fixed nitrogen GARRETT Government Haber process HILL horsepower industry installation interest investment kilowatts lease or leases leasing board lessee or lessees lessor Major COINER Major MILES Major POYET Major WATKINS manufacture of fertilizer MCSWAIN ment Muscle Shoals navigation nitrate plant operation phosphoric acid plant food power house President primary power production of fertilizer properties purpose question QUIN RANSLEY rental reservoir Secretary sodium nitrate STAFFORD steam plant storage sulphate Tennessee River thereof tion tons of nitrogen transmission line United WAINWRIGHT WILLIAMS Wilson Dam WURZBACH
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Page 135 - York, and having its principal office and place of business in the Borough of Manhattan, City, County and State of New York (herein called the "Association").
Page 372 - Two of the members in office shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of the business of the Board.
Page 142 - ... in the public interest the navigation and water resources of the region ; and as between other applicants, the commission may give preference to the applicant the plans of which it finds and determines are best adapted to develop, conserve, and utilize in the public interest the navigation and water resources of the region, if it be satisfied as to the ability of the applicant to carry out such plans.
Page 372 - All members of the board shall be persons who profess a belief in the feasibility and wisdom of this Act.
Page 374 - The President of the United States is authorized to provide for the transfer to the Corporation of the use, possession, and control of such other real or personal property of the United States as he may from time to time deem necessary and proper for the purposes of the Corporation as herein stated.
Page 372 - ... any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed, shall be appointed for the remainder of...
Page 374 - Corporation the better to carry out its powers successfully, and as far as practicable shall utilize the services of such officers, agents, and employees, and the President shall, if, in his opinion, the public interest, service, or economy so require, direct that such assistance, advice, and service be rendered to the Corporation, and any individual that may be by the President directed to render such assistance, advice, and service shall be thereafter subject to the orders, rules, and regulations...
Page 372 - That for the purpose of maintaining and operating the properties now owned by the United States in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in the interest of the national defense and for agricultural and industrial development, and to improve navigation in the Tennessee River and to control the destructive flood waters in the Tennessee River and Mississippi River Basins, there is hereby created a body corporate by the name of the "Tennessee Valley Authority" (hereinafter referred to as the "Corporation").
Page 375 - In order to place the board upon a fair basis for making such contracts and for receiving bids for the sale of such power, it is hereby expressly authorized, either from appropriations made by Congress or from funds secured from the sale of such power, or from funds secured by the sale of bonds [hereafter provided for], to construct, lease, purchase, or authorize the construction of transmission lines within transmission distance from the place where generated, and to interconnect with other systems.
Page 375 - States, counties, municipalities, corporations, partnerships, or individuals, according to the policies hereinafter set forth; and to carry out said authority, the board is authorized to enter into contracts for such sale for a term not exceeding twenty years, and in the sale of such current by the board it shall give preference to States, counties, municipalities, and cooperative organizations of citizens or farmers, not organized or doing business for profit, but primarily for the purpose of supplying...