Word: seaway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year on river and harbor development, $35,000,000 on flood control. President Hoover predicted that his program could be undertaken and carried through by the expenditure of only an additional $10,000,000 per year - or $20,000,000 if the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence seaway were included...
...Great Lakes-St. Lawrence seaway "whenever our Canadian friends have overcome those difficulties that lie in the path." Time: ten years. Cost: "After we have disposed of the electrical power, we could contract the entire construction for less than $200,000,000 divided between the two Governments...
Secretary of War Davis appeared, to tell about Hawaii's forts and sesquicentennial celebration. The Lakes-to-Atlantic seaway, as an outlet for Midland farm produce, was also on the Secretary's mind. He issued a statement in behalf of the St. Lawrence River route as against the Mohawk Valley-Hudson River route...
...restated his preference for the St. Lawrence River, as opposed to the N. Y. State Barge Canal and the Hudson River, as the route for a Lakes-to-Atlantic seaway...