he says, "the real story "is down in chattanooga, where the head of purchasing is paul fahey." there. and paul fahey had a stack of -- it was on ruled paper -- but he had case after case after case after case of identical bidding on contracts. now these are sealed bids, you understand. these are sealed bids, they come in a sealed envelope. but the biggest and the most interesting things were the electrical contracts from big firms like general electric, westinghouse, allis-chalmers. i don't think anybody really knew what the hell we had. schoumacher: the tva wasn't usually front-page news, but tennessee happened to be the home state of senator estes kefauver. kefauver had made his name nationally with televised hearings investigating organized crime. adopting a coonskin cap as his trademark, he had waged two popular but unsuccessful campaigns for president. then in 1959, kefauver took on a new crusade against a different kind of organized crime, antitrust violators. kefauver announced that he was going to hold hearings in knoxville. uh, the word i heard was that the justice dep