The Democrats had a grand time when they baited the Administration over the big Dixon-Yates contract that would have allowed private utilities to build a $107 million steam plant to service the Memphis, Tenn. area (TIME, Aug. 15, 1955). They claimed that the deal bypassed and weakened the TVA, thus focused the argument on public v. private power. Further, they said, the AEC had no statutory authority to make the contract. The Democrats' best ammunition came late in the debate when Senate investigators learned that one Adolphe H. Wenzell had acted as consultant to the Budget Bureau on the...
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