Word: seaport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...final gasp of opposition, the railway and seaport lobbies are hinting that Canada really cannot afford to build the Seaway by itself at all, and that its announcement is intended to dupe Congress into co-sponsoring the project...
...that he "abandoned the scientific laboratory of biology for the human laboratory of politics." Sixteen months ago, Politico Guevara, a former cabinet minister, tried to come to power by arms. His revolution began at dawn in Guayaquil, Ecuador's second city (pop. 216,000) and major seaport. It ended with his humiliating arrest a couple of hours later by the army officers he thought would join him. By 4 p.m. the same day, he was in the massive old jail in Quito, Ecuador's capital, 290 miles away. Last July, after Guevara had served a year, President Galo...
...world's greatest seaport lay 90% idle last week, New York's usual chorus of hooting ships reduced to an occasional lonely wail...
...recent morning, a naval officer in civilian dress stepped off a train at a fog-shrouded New England seaport and climbed into a waiting limousine. The car sped through the quiet streets and out into the misty countryside. A short while later, in a well-guarded brick building, the Navy man was speaking in harshly urgent tones to a handful of scientists and shipbuilders gathered around a conference table. The officer's name: Captain Hyman George Rickover. His job: to direct the building of the U.S. Navy's first atomic submarine...