Word: canals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that aroused special opposition: 1) An appropriation of $1,500,000 to provide a nine-foot waterway from Chicago to the Mississippi River, thereby connecting the Great Lakes and the Gulf. 2) $100,000 for a survey of the so-called All-American route (through New York) for a canal for large vessels from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic (TIME, April 5, SHIPPING) and an appropriation of $11,500,000 to buy the Cape Cod Canal from its private owners...
...Senator Burton of Ohio, fought the Illinois waterway tooth and nail, because they alleged it would lower the level of the lakes. They also charged that the survey of the All-American route was a waste of money because the project was impracticable. Another group opposed the Cape Cod Canal purchase, charging that it. was an attempt to unload an unprofitable* private enterprise on the Government...
...said further that the concessions were some 4,600 square miles on both sides of the canal (within 50 or 60 miles, his maps indicated), that they included the only two harbors on the Pacific coast suitable for military operations against the canal, and that the people of Panama were giving away these valuable concessions in perpetuity with almost no return...
...same time there were worry and shrewd planning at the homes of Engineer Louis Renault?at number 90 of the avenue du Bois-de-Boulogne in Paris and at his chateau de la Batellerie (of the canal boat flotilla) at Herqueville, near Saint-Pierre-du-Vauvray in the department of Eure, both places well known to visiting U. S. industrialists. Gracious Mme. Renault, she who was Mlle. Christiane Boullaire, made her suggestions. Directors of the Societe made theirs...
...voluptuous Creole girl, schooled in Paris, takes him?great-bodied, red-bronze of complexion?to herself as Man. They part, still lovers, and the episode is invested with the same universality that spreads over a vast hoard of experiences and impressions he gains traveling the broad Mississippi basin by canal, river and Great Lakes, by farmlands, mountains and new cities, back to Brooklyn, to lean on the front fence sucking a twig, to decide to quit picayune political hacking and try working with his big hands...