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  2. Tennessee Valley Authority - Wikipedia

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    The Tennessee Valley Authority is a government-owned corporation created by U.S. Code Title 16, Chapter 12A, the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933.It was initially founded as an agency to provide general economic development to the region through power generation, flood control, navigation assistance, fertilizer manufacturing, and agricultural development.

  3. Time Variance Authority - Wikipedia

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    The Time Variance Authority (TVA) first appeared in Thor #372 (October 1986). [1] Created by Walt Simonson and Sal Buscema, the TVA originally paid homage to long-time Marvel writer/editor and continuity expert Mark Gruenwald: the TVA staff were all visually designed as clones of Gruenwald (the classification system for alternate realities—the Marvel multiverse—was devised, in part, by ...

  4. Groupe TVA - Wikipedia

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    Groupe TVA Inc. is a Canadian communications company with operations in broadcasting, publishing and production. It was founded as Télé-Métropole Corporation in 1960, and owned CFTM-TV , Montreal's first privately-owned francophone station.

  5. David E. Lilienthal - Wikipedia

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    The TVA was established by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 for flood control and locally controlled hydroelectric power on the Tennessee River. [29] It was a massive project controlled by a public corporation designed to modernize the rural, Southern communities within the Tennessee Valley.

  6. TVA (Canadian TV network) - Wikipedia

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    TVA, stylized as TVΛ, is a Canadian French-language terrestrial television network, owned by Groupe TVA, a publicly traded subsidiary of Quebecor Media. Headquartered in Montreal , the network only has terrestrial stations in Quebec .

  7. Independent agencies of the United States government

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    The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), created in 1933, provides economic development to the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which provides foreign aid and assists with international development.

  8. Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    As part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was created in 1933 to provide electricity, jobs, flood control, improved waterway navigation, agricultural development, and economic modernization to the Tennessee River Valley. [149]

  9. Arthur Ernest Morgan - Wikipedia

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    Arthur Ernest Morgan (June 20, 1878 – November 16, 1975) was a civil engineer, U.S. administrator, and educator. He was the design engineer for the Miami Conservancy District flood control system and oversaw construction.