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Excerpt from Snapping Cords: Comments on the Changing Attitude of American Cities Toward the Utility Problem
HE basic fact underlying any discussion of municipal utili ties is the essential solidarity Oi the private interests which control them. Of this oneness in method and mutuality Of pur pose some may be legitimate and may lead to efficiency. Much Of it, however, is short-sighted, non-dividend producing and anti social. Not a little of it is clearly against existing statutes. In all this planning the security floater is in supreme authority. The engineer, the scientist and the administrator all take their orders from the investment bankers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
