Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sample of U.S. politeness had already been given. The Panama Canal had been closed to Japanese ships. Ten Japanese freighters heading for the Canal's Caribbean entrance hove to offshore, hung idly in the thick July heat. Other ships went through but their turn never came. To protests the War Department said: so sorry (taking no chances on one of them blowing up in a lock), but the Canal was undergoing repairs. Finally the Japanese freighters gave up, plowed south on the 19,000-mile voyage around Cape Horn...
...Songs by Captain Pearl Nye, a jovial, bearded, retired canal-boatman; a cook in Livingston, Ala. named Vera Hall; a fake blind man and his fake gypsy wife from Texas, who in 1909 sang for Mr. Lomax the now famous Whoopee Ti yi yo, Git Along Little Dogies...
...waters drop 602 feet, roar over rapids, dodge many an island. The Seaway project would make these waters a marine highway at least 27 feet deep, so that ocean vessels could sail from Lake ports to the whole maritime world. This would require at least 18 big locks, many canals, much dredging. Estimated cost, including facilities already built: $379,252,000-about the cost of the Panama Canal...
Thus, total planned cost of power-seaway project is $579,000,000. Of this, Canada is to pay $277,000,000 (including credit of $133,000,000 for completed Welland Canal around Niagara Falls); the U.S. $302,000,000 (including credit of $17,000,000). Canada's cautious Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King wangled a good deal: her part of the work need not be completed before 1949; if war costs are too high, she can take even longer. Thus, if the U.S. wants the project now, she must foot all the bills, at least temporarily...
...year-old pro-Seaway lobbyist (for Minnesota) named J. Adam Bede, who was a Congressman in 1903-09, remarked: "Aw, I've heard all this before. ... I remember when the railroad people testified that the transcontinental rails would turn to rust if we built the Panama Canal." But like the Panama Canal, the Seaway would cut transportation costs. Proponents have argued, for example, that automobiles might move from Detroit to Los Angeles at a saving of $84.94 a ton. One friendly source-assuming total Seaway export-import traffic of 11,500,000 tons a year-estimates possible savings...