abbreviation for Tennessee Valley
Authority, a
Federal corporation organized in 1933 to provide
cheap electric
power, flood
control, irrigation, etc., by developing the entire valley of the Tennessee River, especially by building dams and reservoirs. The
establishment of the TVA aroused both
local and national praise and opposition. A controversy over the exact functions and duties of the TVA was still ongoing at the
time of this lecture. And so we take enough
atomic fission and so forth, or
dynamite or some such thing, and we go and
blow up all of TVA like the
Republicans are trying to do. -The Unknown
Datum-A
MEST Shaking Lecture (14
Sept. 55)
abbreviation for Tennessee Valley
Authority, a
Federal corporation organized in 1933 to provide
cheap electric
power, flood
control, irrigation, etc., by developing the entire valley of the Tennessee River, especially by building dams and reservoirs. The
establishment of the TVA aroused both
local and national praise and opposition. A controversy over the exact functions and duties of the TVA was still ongoing at the
time of this lecture.