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...Detroit speech last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), President Harry Truman touched off a noisy ovation when he stressed the importance of the St. Lawrence seaway as a route for Labrador iron ore to U.S. steel mills. Said he: "There never was a project in the history of the country more badly needed." The President's words were a rebuke to the House Public Works Committee, which two days earlier had voted 15 to 12 to shelve the seaway for another year...
...more. Charged with mine-spotting on the Thames, Skipper Herbert also fought no-hit engagements with passing "doodlebugs" (V1 flying bombs), once scurried ashore with his crew to retrieve books (including one of his own) from his publisher's burning office. In midwar, he traveled to Newfoundland and Labrador on a parliamentary survey, made a report and duly noted that Labrador Husky dogs were "the only modified wolves in the Civil Service. Or perhaps...
...range, where miners were washing down bedrock with hoses to extract the shrinking deposits of ore. The Congressmen heard estimates that the Mesabi's reserves would last as little as five years longer. They found Mesabi mining men unanimously convinced that the seaway is necessary to bring Labrador ore to U.S. steel mills. Said Major General Lewis Pick, U.S. Army chief of engineers,* who accompanied the Congressmen: "Any man who opposes this undertaking should prepare to make peace with his Maker, for if [the U.S. and Canada] are denied steel . . . we must become decadent peoples...
Admiral's success story is no isolated wonder. Since the end of World War II, specialized U.S. investments in Canada have become commonplace-wholly aside from such widely known developments as Alberta oil, Labrador iron and Quebec titanium. Last week, for example, Canadian Steel Improvement Ltd., owned by a Cleveland company, announced plans to produce jet engine compressor blades for the R.C.A.F. in a $2,000,000 plant near Toronto...
...This is the bill for the St. Lawrence Seaway Project. It literally has everything--power for defense which could mean as much to us as Muscle Shoals and the later T.V.A. did in World War II; an interior and defensible route for iron ore from Labrador in war or peace; opening to deep water transportation the entire heart of the Mississippi Valley; and all this for an investment of less than $1,000,000,000, split between Canada and the United States in such a way as to create an additional tie between the two countries. It would develop...