January 1946
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Articles
Mencken's America Speaking
"Mr. Mencken, as we know, defends the American vernacular and at the same time is ever ready to laugh at the follies of its makers."
Of Space and Time
Your Electricity and Your Money
ARMY engineers, and chief among them Brigadier General Lewis A. Pick, have been over every mile of the 2500mile stretch of the Missouri River seeking to estimate the effects of irrigation and flood control, the thousands of new homesteads, and the industrial potential which might result from a valley authority similar to TVA. The size and the authority of the proposed Federal developments now, as in 1937, have been sharply questioned by those who believe that private initiative and private capital are adequate for any undertaking. To meet this issue squarely, the Atlantic has called in Charles W. Kellogg, President of the Edison Electric Institute and an experienced spokesman for the privately owned electric utilities, and David E. Lilienthal, who believes that the TVA enterprise, of which he is Chairman, is one of the most important experiments in democracy ever attempted.
Tva: An American Invention
How to Write a Book
Delta Weeding
The Atlantic published EUDORA WELTY’S first contribution to its pages, her story “A Worn Path,” four years ago this month. That story was ultimately to receive an O. Henry Award. But more than that, it proclaimed the arrival of an American author in whom the South must take exceptional pride. In her middle thirties and as modest as she is talented, Miss Welty has this to say about her early career: —
Yes, I'm Tired
Light and Shadow
Know Something?
The Elm
Latin Lotteries
The Well
Old Glass
Christmas Eve Snowfall
West Coast Fish
The Peripatetic Reviewer
The Far East
Sheer Bruff
The New Veteran
Glory for Me
The Burning Glass
For Thee the Best
Ever After
The Bach Reader
The Door Opens
We Always Come Back
The Shield of the Valiant
Laughing Stock
Latin America
The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington
The Middle East
A Declaration of Peace
The Atomic Bomb and World Government
Crime and Punishment
Railroad Harvest
What About Church Unity?
First in War--Last in Peace
Wind--120 Knots
The Medical Uses of Atomic Energy
Waves of Darkness
