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The A. P. Lends a Hand to TVA Wreckers
McMillin, Miles | July 10, 1948 issue

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The Associated Press (AP) is lending itself to the campaign to destroy the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). An absolutely erroneous story charging the TVA with inability to prevent floods in the Tennessee Valley, which the AP has privately admitted was inaccurate but has never publicly corrected, is being used by utility propagandists in the current drive to wreck the TVA. TVA, through its chief engineer, C.E. Blee, issued a statement declaring that the AP story was wholly inaccurate. According to Blee, none of TVA's flood-storage reservoirs on the tributaries or Kentucky reservoir, which is reserved for use in reducing floods on the lower Ohio and Mississippi, filled or even came remotely near filling.

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FLOODS; TENNESSEE Valley Authority; BLEE, C. E.; OHIO; MISSISSIPPI; TENNESSEE River Valley; UNITED States
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