Tennessee Valley Authority: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, Seventy-fourth Congress, First Session, Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1935 - 843 páginas |
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Página 428 - 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.
Página 469 - Above rates are net, the gross rates being 10 percent higher. In the event that the current monthly bill is not paid within 10 days from date of bill, the gross rates shall apply.
Página 471 - It Is in the general true that the province of an appellate court is only to inquire whether a judgment when rendered was erroneous or not. But if, subsequent to the judgment, and before the decision of the appellate court, a law intervenes and positively changes the rule which governs, the law must be obeyed, or its obligation denied.
Página 545 - Provided, That the Administrator may certify out of the funds made available by this subsection additional grants to States applying therefor to aid needy persons who have no legal settlement in any one State or community, and to aid in assisting cooperative and self-help associations for the barter of goods and services.
Página 86 - Tenn., a distance of about 650 miles, to be obtained by the construction of low dams; provided, that under the provisions of the Federal Water Power Act a high dam with locks may be substituted .for any two or more of the low dams and built by private interests, States, or municipalities ; and provided further, that in case high dams are built before the United States shall have built the projected locks and low dams which are to be replaced, the United States shall contribute to the cost of the...
Página 85 - Shall have power to construct such dams, and reservoirs, in the Tennessee River and its tributaries, as in conjunction with Wilson Dam, and Norris, Wheeler, and Pickwick Landing 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...
Página 81 - States or any agency thereof; and the board is further authorized, whenever an opportunity is afforded, to provide and operate facilities for the generation of electric energy in order to avoid the waste of water power, to transmit and market such power as in this act provided, and thereby, so far as may be practicable, to assist in liquidating the cost or aid in the maintenance of the projects of the Authority.
Página 8 - If the value of the water power thus created can be made available for the further improvement of navigation in the stream, it is manifest that the improvement will be much more quickly effected, on the one hand, and, on the other, that the burden on the general taxpayers of the country will be very much reduced.
Página 12 - Be it enacted by the Senate and, Hou^e of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the...
Página 8 - If the water power thus created can be made available for the further improvement of navigation in the stream, it is manifest that the improvement will be much more quickly effected on the one hand, and. on the other, that the burden on the general taxpayers of the country will be very much reduced. Private interests seeking...