Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933-1937 ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1937 - 83 halaman
 

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Halaman 1 - Authority— a corporation clothed with the power of government but possessed of the flexibility and initiative of a private enterprise. It should be charged with the broadest duty of planning for the proper use, conservation and development of the natural resources of the Tennessee River drainage basin and its adjoining territory for the general social and economic welfare of the nation.
Halaman 8 - We may take judicial notice of the international situation at the time the act of 1916 was passed, and it cannot be successfully disputed that the Wilson Dam and its auxiliary plants, including the hydroelectric power plant, are, and were intended to be, adapted to the purposes of national defense.
Halaman 7 - States, counties, municipalities, and cooperative organizations of citizens or farmers, not organized or doing business for profit, but primarily for the purpose of supplying electricity to Its own citizens or members...
Halaman 27 - ... particularly the domestic and rural consumers to whom the power can economically be made available, and accordingly that sale to and use by industry shall be a secondary purpose, to be utilized principally to secure a sufficiently high load factor and revenue returns which will permit domestic and rural use at the lowest possible rates and in such manner as to encourage increased domestic and rural use of electricity.
Halaman 26 - Certainly, the Alabama Power Company has no constitutional right to insist that it shall be the sole purchaser of the energy generated at the Wilson Dam; that the energy shall be sold to it or go to waste.
Halaman 28 - We suppose that in the early days of mining in the West, if the government had undertaken to operate a silver mine on its domain, it could have acquired the mules or horses and equipment to carry its silver to market. And the transmission lines for electric energy are but a facility for conveying to market that particular sort of property, and the acquisition of these lines raises no different constitutional question, unless in some way there is an invasion of...
Halaman 28 - ... silver to market. And the transmission lines for electric energy are but a facility for conveying to market that particular sort of property, and the acquisition of these lines raises no different constitutional question, unless in some way there is an invasion of the rights reserved to the State or to the people.
Halaman 9 - To arrange with farmers and farm organizations for largescale practical use of the new forms of fertilizers under conditions permitting an accurate measure of the economic return they produce. (c) To cooperate with National, State, district, or county experimental stations or demonstration farms...
Halaman 4 - Dams, now under construction, will provide a nine-foot channel in the said river and maintain a water supply for the same, from Knoxville to its mouth, and will best serve to promote navigation on the Tennessee River and its tributaries and control destructive flood waters in the Tennessee and Mississippi River drainage basins...
Halaman 2 - The planning of the river's future is entrusted to the TVA. The planning of the valley's future must be the democratic labor of many agencies and individuals, and final success is as much a matter of general initiative as of general consent. The TVA has no power or desire to Impose from above a comprehensive plan for the social and economic life of the valley.

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