National Affairs: Cancellation & Continuation

While the ruckus about the Dixon-Yates power contract roared on in Capitol Hill committee rooms last week, the President of the U.S. and the mayor of Memphis met at the White House for a sensible discussion of the question. Democratic Mayor Frank Tobey told President Eisenhower that Memphis is wholly sincere in its plan to build a steam plant that will replace the power drawn from the Tennessee Valley Authority by the Atomic Energy Commission. By building its own plant, Memphis will be assured of power without Dixon-Yates. Since this fitted the Eisenhower policy of local rather than federal solutions to...

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