Artikel "THE TVA is A bureaucracy"
THE TVA 1s A bureaucracy. The common supposition is that bureaucracies are slow to move, awkward in action, uninspired by inventiveness. The construction of the Norris and Joe Wheeler dams of the TVA are well ahead of schedule, and will be finished in 1936. They are already one-third completed, a little over a year after the creation of the Authority.
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Thebusinesscurrent model town of Norris, near the Norris Dam, is more than these-fourths built, after careful attention to architecture, town planning, and other requirements of permanence.
Artikel"The Northwest Needs A Cva (1945)"
AT THE END oF THE WAR the people of the Pacific Northwest face not a problem but an emergency of major proportions. In this region "post-war adjustment" will require a redistribution of population, a rapid development of resources, and a general reorganization of the economy. http://articleauthority.com/Article/THE-NORTHWEST-NEEDS-A-CVA--1945-/227263 Other war-industry centers are concerned with shifting war workers to peace-time jobs; in the Northwest the problem is to create the jobs. The talk here is not of "reconver¬sion" but of possible "new industrias," not of "adjustment" but of "regional development."
Artikel"Rank-and-file kilowatts (1944)"
UNDER THE BANNERS of "free enterprise," the privateers are launching a nation-wide assault upon the people's ownership and use of their own resources. In the Northwest two related campaigns are under way in the free enterprisers' current attempt at a glorious comeback. http://www.articlesbase.com/business-articles/rankandfile-kilowatts-1944-826269.html In one, private ownership is fighting public ownership in the field of electric light and power; in the other, private ownership is fighting public ownership over the disposition of the new war plants that have sprung up around the great dams.
Artikel"TVA- The first fifteen years (1948)"
TVA produced 14,797,ooo,ooo kilowatt-hours in 1947 compared with 12,314,000,000 in the previous year. (Incidentally 92 per cent of the 1947 Output came from hydroelectric plants.) But the demand still is rising. Between June 30 of last year and the end of February,1948, the number of consumrs increased from 743,000 to 81o,4oo. And the use per consumer is mounting. The average for 1947 was 2,197 kilowatt-hours; by the end of last February it was up to 2,446.
Artikel"High Temsiom- On the Prarie"
Organized as Counties United for Rural Environment (CURE), farmers opposed the transmission segment of the CU project during two years of public hearings. Their Opposition failed to achieve more than minor changes and drew little public attention. The dramatic physical confrontations were more effective. http://www.amazines.com/article_detail.cfm?articleid=851531 One Farmer allegedly drove his tractor over surveying equipment, and then battered the surveyors' pickup truck with his big machine. Such events finally made the farmers' Opposition newsworthy, and local media covered the ensuing flurry of meetings and news conferences held by both sides.
THE VISIONARY OCTOPUS
DONALD LOOK, president and chief executive officer of the American Electric Power Co. (AEP), has a vision, and it is not unlike the visions of the Guggenheims, Rockefellers and Carnegies before him. Mr. Cook proposes to transform the hundreds of electrical companies in the United States into a dozen or so giant regional monopolies.
Of course there will be victims in this march toward economic efficiency, as there were in the earlier campaigns to monopolize the copper, steel and petroleum industries. The obvious victims are the smaller electrical systems, many of them municipally owned; and as they disappear the accountability to which they are held will disappear with them. http://www.articledepot.co.uk/pending-article-80901.html For the move to electrical monop¬oly promises to visit an the public the usual costs of concentrated corporate Power: stagnation in research and development, further undermining of a shaky regulatory apparatus, perpetuation of injustices in rate structures, in pollution control, minority employment and plant-siting policies.