Word: saints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Odious! In woollen! T'would a saint provoke...
...worth as far as he was concerned, too. Under Emperor Claudius in the third century A.D., young men in the army were forbidden to marry since it sapped their strength. St. Val began marrying couples in secret, for which Claudius had him whipped and imprisoned. That's when the Saint began sending cards to his friends on every anniversary of his imprisonment...
...over a decade, American railroad and seaport lobbies have effectively bottled Congressional action on the Saint Lawrence Seaway plan. Their motives are sample enough: they will lose trade if the Great Lakes are opened up to ocean ships. But now, they are desperate. The Canadian Government unceremoniously uncorked the bottle by announcing its intention to start begging up the Saint Lawrence in the spring, whether the U.S. joins...
...deny that the Saint Lawrence Seaway is, as the lobbies claim, a sectional issue. But it is sectional only in its harmful effects: it will hurt the coastal ports and the railroads that service them. It's benefits, however, would be national, not sectional. One has only to look at past "sectional" projects--the TVA, the Panama Canal, the Grand Coulee Dam--all of which, though they hurt local interests, benefitted the whole nation...
Faced with the steel requirements for defense, and the plain fact that Canada has grown tired of waiting, Congress should join Canada on the Saint Lawrence Seaway project...