Word: hudsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Studebaker, Nash, Graham-Paige and Willys-Overland were "not only friendly [to U. A. WJ] but 100% organized," while Chrysler, Hudson and Packard were "fair" to the union. These revelations strengthened Washington reports that John L. Lewis had no intention of trying to tie up the whole automobile industry, since G. M.'s resistance to a long strike would obviously be weakened if its competitors were able to seize its markets. If this was Leader Lewis' strategy, however, he was would have to end promptly the C. I. O. strikes which last week continued to keep...
Ever since that September day in 1608 when Hendrik Hudson in his 80-ton Half Moon sailed 143 miles up from the sea to its site, Albany has had a maritime history. In 1686, when it received the charter which today makes it the oldest incorporated city in the U. S., the little Dutch fur trading post already was a prominent port...
Second U. S. skipper to sail into Canton, China, was Albany's Captain Stewart Dean of the sloop Experiment in 1789. It was to Albany that Inventor Robert Fulton chuffed up the Hudson from New York in the world's first steamboat in 1807 and in 1825, when the Erie Canal was opened to Buffalo, Albany, now the logical gateway to the West, felt its marine prestige assured...
...19th Century matured, seagoing boats outgrew the Hudson. Railroads killed the canal. But since Albany sits at the junction of the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys, it found itself in command of the low-level land passage through the Atlantic-Coastal ranges, became an important rail centre. Nevertheless, Albany still looked longingly down the Hudson. Valley toward the sea. After a generation of civic agitation, in 1925 Congress authorized dredging the Hudson to permit ocean-going vessels to reach Albany. In the next seven years the War Department spent $6,000,000 scooping out a 27-ft. channel. Albany spent...
...another marine transport objective. Meeting, there last week was an International Joint Commission of six appointed by Canada and the U. S. to discuss the feasibility of a passage for deep-sea vessels from Albany to the St. Lawrence River. This passage, first projected in 1902, would follow the Hudson as far as the Champlain Canal, thence through Lake Champlain to the Richelieu River, which would be dredged to the St. Lawrence. Behind this scheme, which would cost some $150,000,000 last week were ranged Albany civic societies and such groups as the New England slate industry. Against...