Photos & words from #JamesAgee, “Where did the Tennessee Valley Authority come from?”
(fortune.com/2013/04/14/w...)
‘Of TVA’s experiment, these, briefly stated, are the prime ultimate objectives:
To regulate river flow. To develop navigation to a maximum. To eliminate flood. ➡️

In #Fortune #OCTOBER 1933
#TVA - 2
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As #LewisHine was at work, an article by #JamesAgee gives as vivid, incisive and - of course - magnificently written a picture as possible of the problems posed by the #TennesseeValley and of the goals of the TVA - and #theNewDeal.
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I never met Stuart but the idea of re-evaluating a film, after a while, without necessarily going back to see it again, was one of the defining traits of one of our most thoughtful critics, #JamesAgee. So Stuart was in good company.