Word: lakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great Lakes, 71 ocean-going ships were stranded behind strikebound locks, able to load or unload cargoes as far inland as Chicago but unable to return to sea. Another 72 vessels were stalled at the Montreal end of the 2,342-mile waterway, and dozens more clogged smaller ports as far away as Trois Riveres, 80 miles downstream. Canadian railroads stopped wheat shipments to such key outlets as Port Arthur and Fort William on Lake Superior. Toronto shippers laid off 500 longshoremen. Executive Director Andrew W. Fleming of the Detroit-Wayne County Port Commission estimated that...
...seven quiet years, Ira Dennison, an upstate New York businessman, found the Adirondack Mountains over-looking Lake George a virtually soundproof haven from his workaday world. Then bulldozers rumbled onto his property, and the bosky dreamland in front of his colonial homestead became a concrete nightmare. Once remote and inaccessible, his hideaway was partly absorbed by a new exit for the six-lane Albany-to-Montreal Northway...
...divorced when he was two, and he was raised by his grandfather, a gravedigger in Vickery, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. But "our house was about two miles out in the country," he says, "and we had it rent free. It was nice out there. We even had a lake behind the house." Next door was a country club; in between was a fence, and little Lee turned a tidy profit on that happy coincidence-collecting golf balls that strayed over the fence, selling them back to club members. "I cleared maybe $10 a day." Combining pleasure with business...
...Jersey Governor Richard J. Hughes, moved to make the Great Swamp area, where the field would be built, a wildlife preserve instead of an airport. Chicago's Mayor Richard J. Daley is contemplating a plan to build a 12.6-sq.-mi. airport on landfill in Lake Michigan, and Cleveland's Mayor Carl B. Stokes has a similar plan under consideration for Lake Erie...
...largest producers of lithium, a superlight metal that, in various forms, is used in such disparate products as laundry bleach, synthetic rubber and swimming-pool disinfectant. Lithium Corp. also has a stake in a venture to extract potash and other minerals from Utah's Great Salt Lake. Bunker Hill, meanwhile, is one of the U.S.'s biggest producers of zinc, lead and silver. By acquiring it, Gulf Resources also strengthened its profit position, since Bunker Hill had earnings last year of $4.19 million compared with $3.81 million for its new parent company...