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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... less a new development and we can not afford to be put in the position that we are obligated to deliver power from Muscle Shoals and , because of the fertilizer guarantee end of the agreement , we have no power to deliver . On that ...
... less a new development and we can not afford to be put in the position that we are obligated to deliver power from Muscle Shoals and , because of the fertilizer guarantee end of the agreement , we have no power to deliver . On that ...
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... less , that we need in the cyanam- ide plant , or a total of 280,000 horsepower , and then we are out of luck ; because somebody else is operating the electric furnace phosphoric acid somewhere and has the best of us . Mr. DOUGLAS . Now ...
... less , that we need in the cyanam- ide plant , or a total of 280,000 horsepower , and then we are out of luck ; because somebody else is operating the electric furnace phosphoric acid somewhere and has the best of us . Mr. DOUGLAS . Now ...
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... less academic ? Mr. DOUGLAS . I am not at all certain it is academic . Mr. BELL . In other words , do you think the State of Tennessee is prepared to embark on the expenditure of twenty - five or thirty million dollars at Cove Creek and ...
... less academic ? Mr. DOUGLAS . I am not at all certain it is academic . Mr. BELL . In other words , do you think the State of Tennessee is prepared to embark on the expenditure of twenty - five or thirty million dollars at Cove Creek and ...
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... less general summary of what we propose to do ? Mr. RANSLEY . It was my understanding , Mr. Bell , that we were to have a general summary , and in all probability questions will be asked during that summary that you make . Mr. BELL ...
... less general summary of what we propose to do ? Mr. RANSLEY . It was my understanding , Mr. Bell , that we were to have a general summary , and in all probability questions will be asked during that summary that you make . Mr. BELL ...
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... less a secret process during the war which has now become public , has it not ? Mr. BELL . My understanding is that the process there was tried on the basis of a modification of the Haber - Bosch process , a modifica- tion worked out by ...
... less a secret process during the war which has now become public , has it not ? Mr. BELL . My understanding is that the process there was tried on the basis of a modification of the Haber - Bosch process , a modifica- tion worked out by ...
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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...