Uncle Sam´s Billion-Dollar Baby
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Excerpt from Uncle Sam´s Billion-Dollar Baby: A Taxpayer Looks at the T V It is only fair to warn the reader at the start that I am no authority on electricity or the production of electric power. I know about as little, technically speaking, of the mysterious force which makes my light shine and my clock tick and my wife´s washing machine wash as it is possible for an adult, reasonably educated person to know and still be accepted socially by his fellow man and woman. I do know, however, that it is important that the activities listed above and many other activities of what has quite properly been called The Electric Age should continue unabated and, if possible, unhampered by considerations either industrial or ideological. My present acute interest in this larger phase of the subject was aroused first by the mass of adulatory literature issued by and about the Tennessee Valley Authority. I had no quarrel with this literature. I believed, and still believe, that much of the adulation was deserved. My reportorial sense, however, as well as such common sense as I possessed, told me that there must be two sides to this as to every other question. As a frequent and insatiably curious traveler throughout all sections of the country, I was already more or less familiar with the great government power projects in the South, Southwest, and Northwest. I now began a series of visits to power plants under business management, as distinguished from political management, and met and talked with many of the great figures of the industry. As a result of these visits and contacts I was encouraged to write this book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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