Word: projects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...project for improving the St. Lawrence waterway will reduce the cost of transportation from Boston to the West, will help relieve railway congestion, and will provide cheaper power," said Senator I. L. Lenroot of Wisconsin during a recent interview for the CRIMSON on the St. Lawrence project, in which he maintained the opposite side of the case from that taken by Congressman S. W. Dempsey of New York in an interview published in the CRIMSON on April...
...There is a barrier between Lake Ontario and the sea and the St. Lawrence project means the removal of that barrier. The Wellend Canal, now nearing completion, will remove the barrier at Niagara Falls. From Lake Ontario to Montreal is a distance of 182 miles. Between Lake Ontario and Gallop Island, a distance of 68 miles, there is now a channel more than 30 feet deep with a minimum width of 500 feet. Therefore, there is only a distance of 114 miles involved in the improvement. But in this 114 miles, there is now at different points about 68 miles...
...Such a project will not only save many industries for Massachusetts which must otherwise move nearer the coal fields on the water power of the South, but it will permit Massachusetts to expand with the rest of the country...
...Murray was the first man to conceive the project of a superpower station for the region between Boston and Washington and urged the late Mr. Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, to make a survey of the source of energy in New England and along the Atlantic Seaboard as far South as Washington. The survey considered the economic possibilities of interconnecting existing electric power plants and systems in the zone and building of new plants...
...inviting professors of international law and politics from several European universities to teach at this session. American students attending it will be in Geneva at the time of the annual meeting of the League of Nations in September. M. Fatio is visiting the University in the interest of this project...