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135: 367:, reopened the Dixon–Yates hearings to force the AEC to cancel the contract. Most of the issues between the TVA and the AEC were resolved while Nichols was general manager, but under a plan developed by Walter von Tresckow, a New York financial consultant, eventually the city of Memphis came up with an alternative solution to its power needs and the contract was cancelled. Dixon–Yates claimed damages, but lost because of a conflict of interest involving a 197: 77: 36: 351:
that replacing the power the TVA was contracted to supply would cost an extra four to six million a year, and that he preferred that the TVA procure the power directly. However, Strauss and Eisenhower favoured the proposal, which was approved by the
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The contract, actually with the Mississippi Valley Generating Company to build a coal plant, was named after its two signatories: Edgar Dixon, the President of Middle South Utilities, and Eugene Yates the chairman of the Board of the Southern.
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consultant. Nichols said that "The AEC was absolved of any involvement in the conflict of interest. Thus ended a time-consuming political fiasco."
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opposed using taxes to provide tax-free low-interest financing to benefit one metropolitan area.
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