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...dynamite blast that geysered water of the Detroit River 150 ft. in the air signaled a new era in Great Lakes shipping last week. It set off a $23 million project that will deepen Amherstburg Channel in the Detroit River near Lake Erie to a minimum depth of 27 ft. (from 21 ft.), enable the waterway to take deep-draft ocean-going ships of up to 10,000 tons and shallow-draft lake ships of 25,000 tons- almost double the present capacity. This is the first part of a five-year dredging program to open the upper Midwest...
Private contractors, working under the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will carve out a standard 27-ft. waterway in the 130 miles of channels linking the western Great Lakes. This week the Army will open bids for the second stage of the project, the deepening of a channel in the St. Mary's River near the Soo Locks. Later, a work force of 800 to 1,000 will dredge the Straits of Mackinac channel between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, deepen the channels in the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River. Total cost...
...Asia and Africa to help provide the visible signs of economic progress that their peoples are learning to expect and demand. The method of providing capital is entirely new: creation of a Development Loan Fund, to replace former handout-style grants, through which the U.S. will be able to channel $500 million in fiscal 1958 and $750 million in both fiscal 1959 and 1960 into basic foreign-growth projects such as roads, dams, utilities, "the sinews of economic strength...
Reich, there would have been no cross-Channel operation that year. It would have been sacrificed in favor of ... various desultory and haphazard operations...
...typewriters clack out letters appealing for prayer; duplicating machines roll out instructions and memorandums. On wall maps of New York, the U.S. and the world, red, blue and green pins and tapes spot churches (1,510 in Greater New York) and prayer groups supporting the campaign. Staff members: 1) channel the activities of 108,415 "prayer partners" in the U.S.; 2) keep tab on 158,817 prayer partners in 48 other countries; 3) ride herd on the "active" cooperating ministers, the "partial-supporting" ministers and the "undecided" ministers; 4) process applications for blocks of seats ("Lancaster, Pa. wants...