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...seaway's impact on both the geography and economy of the continent will be enormous. More than 8,000 miles of new coastline will be added to the U.S-s and Canada. Such lakefront cities as Chicago, Cleveland, l)uluth, Buffalo, Toronto and Hamilton will become genuine deepwater ports, 500 miles closer to Europe by seaway than at present. Goods now shipped by rail to the Atlantic from the U.S. Midwest at a cost of $13 a ton will be sent down the St. Lawrence to the sea for about $1.70. Millions will be spent along the waterfront to enlarge...
...examples of the less-is-more approach are among the buildings Mies has designed for the Illinois Tech campus-simple, clean-lined constructions of glass ribbed with steel, which well serve their uncomplicated purpose as lighted areas for study. Similarly, his twin glass apartment skyscrapers on Chicago's lakefront make the most of the view, although some residents complain that the summer sun beating against so much glass sizzles the occupants...
...real family style. All Cleveland was invited to the party in the city's biggest auditorium, where Toastmaster General George Jessel led an array of stars in a "Salute to Cleveland." Throughout the week visitors streamed through the paper's aged plant (to be replaced by a lakefront building) and tributes poured in from all over the world. "If Cleveland has grown great," glowed Ohio's Governor Frank Lausche, "a good deal of the credit goes to this worthy and distinguished newspaper...
...clean and functional as a tumbler, which will rise 18 stories near Chicago's Loop. Also on display was an immense aerial view of Chicago's project to redevelop seven square miles of the city's South Side, including a spacious new hospital in a lakefront garden setting which Gropius is working...
...were out by the thousands, dropping night crawlers, minnows and plugs into the cold water. Some Michigan devotees, in non-trout waters, were taking so-called "rough fish," e.g., carp and suckers, by an ancient method: lantern fishing with a bow & arrow. Chicagoans were dipping for smelt along the lakefront, and Mississippians were getting ready to "hand-grab" for catfish...