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...lock lay like a tremendous, zebra-striped bathtub for Paul Bunyan. (Down were the barrage balloons that usually guard it.) Up to the walk atop the 680-ton lock gates stepped 16-year-old Jan Harns, smashed a beribboned bottle of champagne over the black iron and concrete of the walk. Thus this week one of the world's most strategic locks was formally opened to deep-laden, deep-tooting ore boats. The lock, named for General Douglas MacArthur, is the newest on the Sault Ste. Marie Canal, the most vital waterway in the U.S. Through the Soo passes...
Thus ended a three-year nightmare for top war production officials; one saboteur's lucky blast heretofore could have wrecked the two big side-by-side Soo locks, leaving but one small lock to carry the ore, and so throttle steel production...
...Moon. The U.S. had not always seen the supreme importance of the 60-odd mile St. Mary's River connecting Lakes Superior and Huron, and the need for a canal around the three-quarter-mile white water rapids. The first canal and a tiny, 39-foot-long lock were dug in 1797 by the North West Fur Co. to steal a march on the Hudson's Bay Co. This gave its bearded, fur-hatted voyageurs a quicker route for their flat-bottomed bateaux. During the war of 1812, Americans wrecked this canal. Later, when the Michigan legislature asked...
Last week these titans, champions of East and West respectively, had run themselves ragged for two and a half hours (90 minutes of regular play and four 15-minute overtimes) trying to break a 2-2 dead lock, when approaching darkness finally postponed the decision. This week 6,500 fans gasped and groaned through the play off. Within the regulation 90 minutes the Hispanos finally proved their superiority, 3-to-2. To the Hispanos went the National Challenge Cup, put up in 1912 by Scotland's late, great Sir Thomas Robert Dewar (whiskey), while on a visit...
...Bates saved all that remained of his father's rum, kept it under lock & key. Until his own death, whenever he visited Hartford, Conn., where his father was buried, he took along a phial of the rum, ceremoniously poured it as a libation on his father's grave...