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Muscle Shoals Project Details and Nuclear Power Potential
Muscle Shoals on the Tennessee river in northern Alabama emerges as the nations greatest hydraulic development. The article outlines Dam No 1 2 3 the nitrate plants 1 and 2 a Gorgas power plant and the War Departments role with Maj Gen Bench and Lt Col Spalding overseeing construction. It discusses power capacity 260000 horsepower and the potential for fertilizer versus explosives production.
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Uscle Shoals
United States
Tennessee River
Alabama
America
Chile
Muscle Shoals
Wilson Daum
Congress
Wilson Dam
Muscle Shoals Project
War Department
Secretary of War
President Coolidge
Florence
Ohio
Wilson
Waco
Alabama Power Company
Tennessee
Kentucky
Mississippi
Cairo
Knoxville
Tenn
Paducah
Gatun
Assuan
Hugh L. Cooper
New York
Chicago
Corps of Engineers
Lansing H. Bench
Harry Taylor
George R. Spalding
Cooper
Drobeng
William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Company
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company
Maj
J. K. Crain
Ordnance Department