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Jobs & Lobbies. The main St. Lawrence bottleneck is a 120-mile stretch from Montreal to Ogdensburg, N.Y., where there is now a system of locks and canals providing a channel 14 ft. deep. Under the 1941 agreement, this would be replaced by a 27-ft. channel (deep enough for 80% of the world's shipping) through construction of seven new locks. Additionally, five dams would harness the International Rapids to spin 36 turbines at Barnhart Island. The project would cost Canada $412 million, the U.S. $523 million. It would take six years, provide 15,000 jobs, consume...
Shelley plays Frenchie Fontaine, a New Orleans gambling queen who packs a dainty pistol just above the garter. She sets up shop in the frontier town of Bottleneck to track down the local varmints who killed her father. In the course of a plot with as many turns as her corset strings, Shelley has all the fun of acting like a trollop, then finally turns out to be a perfect lady, worthy of Sheriff Joel McCrea himself...
Both approaches to the Eliot Bridge will be continuous bow rotaries. The M.D.C. does not want to duplicate the bottleneck at the Larz Anderson Bridge...
Both approaches to the Eliot Bridge will be continuous bow rotaries. The M.D.C. does not want to duplicate the bottleneck at the Larz Anderson Bridge...
None of this was accomplished without Bowron's tramping on sensitive toes; he made scores of enemies. He was accused of being arbitrary, tactless and indecisive, and was variously described as 'Chubby Cheeks," "Fumbling Fletch," and "Bottleneck Bowron." He was even attacked by Cafeteria Owner Clifford Clinton, a vociferous reformer and the man who spent $72,000 to put Bowron into office. "Drab . . . colorless ... far from inspiring . . ." cried Clinton. "We were misled . . ." Clinton ran against him;-and lost...