TVA
Proper noun
Meaning
TVA
Initialism of Tennessee Valley Authority.
Examples
1950s By the end of the war, TVA had completed a 650-mile (1050-kilometer) navigation channel the length of the Tennessee River and had become the nation's largest electricity supplier.
2000s May 2005 map of TVA sites dam nuclear fossil In 2002, TVA began work to restart a previously mothballed nuclear reactor at Browns Ferry Unit 1, which was completed in May 2007.
After a final, January 1939, legal defeat for C&S in the Supreme Court, the pace of the talks quickened, and on February 1, 1939, C&S sold the assets to the TVA for $78.6 million.
After being ignored by TVA for decades, Memphis decided there must be a better way.
Another idea for Wilson's as-yet unrevealed character could see him on the other side of the TVA, and thus as a fellow prisoner alongside Loki.
A Tennessee farmer would not take advice from an official in a suit and tie, so TVA officials had to find leaders in the communities and convince them that crop rotation and the judicious application of fertilizers could restore soil fertility.