Word: canals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...illogical rates has been upheld by the Supreme Court. It is the rule in Canada, in England. It has been sustained by members of the Interstate Commerce Commission with few exceptions. The "cut rates" on long hauls are the result of competition with water routes-ocean, lake or Panama Canal. A railroad gets business in the first instance for service which water routes cannot render (service of speed, service to interior localities), for which it charges presumably a fair rate. But the more business a railroad gets, the less its operating cost per ton per mile, the greater its profits...
Defeated in his attempt to prohibit all forms of "long and short haul," Senator Gooding promptly introduced another bill to prevent "the evil" in some particular cases. His new bill is designed to prohibit railroads from making special rates .to compete with waterways other than the Panama Canal. This will be opposed as bitterly as ever by-the Great Lakes representatives, but since it does not greatly affect rates between the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, Senator Gooding hopes to get some support from seaboard Senators. But it is unlikely that this bill will agitate the present session...
...between Minnesota and Liverpool. The alert eastern and midwestern city dweller wants it, for in another 25 years there will be some 40 million more people in the country to congest traffic and consume food. Routes. New York State has the makings of such a channel in its barge canal* connecting Lake Ontario (at Oswego) with the Hudson (above Albany). Partly because this canal has been a very expensive white elephant, partly because it would profit greatly from an increased volume of traffic through its heart, partly because it saw the nation's need, New York lately offered...
...city itself. Its dignity, its gayety and especially its Mardi Gras carnival have made New Orleans one of the storied cities of the U.S. Hither came adventurers from Latin Europe, from Latin America. Here endured an Old World culture exotic and attractive. The old quarter still persists between Canal Street and the river-its narrow streets, its weather-beaten, balconied homes and stores. But the oldtimers, the French and Spanish, have been-crowded out of late. Other Latins have replaced them, the Italians who have gone into trade and commission marketing...
Over these institutions of recent years has spread a boom spirit. This was given impetus by the completion shortly after the War of the War-built industrial canal, between the Mississippi and Lake Pontchartrain. Ocean-going vessels could come up the lake instead of up the 100-odd miles of winding river, gaining thereby some 60 miles of traverse. New wharves and new residence districts got under way. But the Industrial Canal, although available to the city remains unused. The city wants the Government to dredge a shipway through Lake Pontchartrain to the Canal. But the Federal authorities...