Word: harbor
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...attract shipping. Chicago will start work this summer on a $22.5 million dock expansion program; Toronto already has built a new million-dollar freight terminal, and is filling in waterfront sites for two more. Cleveland, Toledo, Duluth, Buffalo, Hamilton, Montreal and Quebec all have laid plans to better their harbors and build bigger docks. More than 40,000,000 tons of ocean cargo are expected to clear through the seaway in its first year of operation, yielding an average of $1 a ton in harbor fees and loading charges to the various seaway ports. At that rate, the St. Lawrence...
...attack; at his home near Phoenixville, Pa. Plainspoken, scholarly Owen Roberts won fame as prosecutor in the 1924 Teapot Dome scandal, was named to the high court by Herbert Hoover, eventually became the sole non-Roosevelt appointee. A lifelong Republican and anti-isolationist, he headed the controversial 1942 Pearl Harbor Report board that exonerated the Roosevelt Administration of blame for unpreparedness. after his retirement devoted much of his time to fostering support for a political union of democratic nations. His favorite judicial maxim, drawn from Justice Holmes: "If a law makes you want to puke, then due process has been...
INLAND STEEL, seventh biggest U.S. steelmaker, with 1954 sales of $533 million, will soon launch a multimillion dollar expansion program to boost both its steel and coke capacity. Major item will be a battery of 87 coke ovens at its Indiana Harbor works...
Smog & Surge. Occasionally Caltech scientists and engineers come down to earth long enough to worry about such purely practical matters as smog, the effect of wave and surge on harbor installations, the first large-scale testing of hydraulic pumps, and, through their study of the laws of aerodynamics, the design of better airplanes. But the work of Nobel Chemist Linus Pauling is of a more rarefied order. The foremost pioneer in applying the quantum theory to the study of chemical bonds, he found that the "resonance" of the atom is the source of the forces that hold molecules together...
Sirens wailed, fireworks burst in dazzling profusion, and coastal batteries boomed a 21-gun salute as a trim Brazilian cruiser steamed into Lisbon harbor. Aboard was Brazil's Joao Cafe Filho, President of a onetime Portuguese colony that became a nation 100 times as big and seven times as populous as the motherland. Met at dockside by figurehead President Francisco Higino Craveiro Lopes and Strongman Oliveira Salazar, Café Filho began his state visit by riding through downtown Lisbon in an open car, along flag-decorated streets jammed with smiling, cheering people. Torrents of confetti in the Brazilian national...