The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
DAM NUMBER 3
 PROVIDED FOR IN NEW PROPOSAL
Government May Re-Take
 Plant On Five Days f*~ Notice
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 fixed nitrogen, commercial fertilizer, and other useful products; and for other purposes.
 Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States in congress assembled:
 That the United States nitrate flxa- tion plants Number 1 and 2, located respectively at Sheffield, Alabama, and Muscle Shoals, Alabama, together with all real estate and buildings used in connection herewith; all tools, machin- cry, equipment, accessories, and ma terials thereunto belonging; all labOra- tories and plants used as auxiliaries thereto, the Waco limestone quarry in Alabama, and any other used as auxil- iaries of slid nitrogen plants Numbered and 2-also dam Number located in the Tennessee river at Muscle Shoals, its power house, its auxiliary steam plants, and all of its hydroelectric and operating apurtenances, together with all machines, lands, and buildings now owned or hereafter acquired in connec- tion herewith, are hereby dedicated and set apart to be used for national de- fense in time of war and for the pro- duction of fertilizers and other useful products in time of peace.
 With Days Notice
 Section 2. Whenever, in the national defense, the United States shall require all or any part of the operating facil- ities and properties or renewals and ad- ditions thereto, described and enume- rated in the foregoing paragraph of this act, for the production of materials nee essary in the manufacture of explosives or other war materials, then the United States shall have the immediate right, upon five days notice to any person, corporation or agent, in possession of, controlling or operating said property under any claim of title whatever, to take over and operate the same in whole or in part, together with the use of all patented processes which the United States may need in the operation of said property for national defense.
 The foregoing clauses shall not be construed as modified, amended, or re- pealed by any of the subsequent sections or paragraphs of this act, or by in- direction of any other act.
 Section 8. In order that the
 United States may have at all times an adequate supply of nitrogen for
 the manufacture of powder and Oth-
 CT explosives, whether said property
 is operated and controlled directly
 by the government or its agents,
 lesses or assigns, under and all cir
 eumstances at least ten thousand
 tons the first year, twenty thOus-
 and tons the second year, thirty
 thousand tons the third year, and
 thereafter forty thousand tons of
 fixed nitrogen must be produced an-
 nually on and with said property,
 and no lease, transfer, or assign
 ment of said property shall be legal
 or blaming on the United States
 unless such adequate annual pro-
 ductiOn of fixed nitrogen is guar
 anteed in such lease, transfer, or
 assignment.
 Section A. Since the production and manufacture of commercial fertilizer is the largest consumer of fixed nitrogen in time of peace, and it's manufacture, sale, and distribution to farmers and other users, at fair prices and without excessive profits, in large quantities throughout the country is only second in importance to the national defense in time of war, the production of fixed