Word: seaway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid much political jubilation on both sides of the border the U. S. and Canada last July signed a treaty to construct a $543,000,000 seaway along the St. Lawrence River connecting the Great Lakes and the Atlantic (TIME, July 25). Last week Senator Borah and his Foreign Relations colleagues sat down to hear what was wrong with this pact. In five days, opponents of its ratification piled up such a mountain of objections that even its friends admitted it had little chance to get through the coming short session...
Critics of the seaway treaty came from Boston. Buffalo, New York City, Portland (Me.), Philadelphia, Albany and Baltimore territory which foresaw damage to existing trade routes should oceanic traffic be diverted to the North. Loudest objectors were U. S. railroads, seconded by their organized security holders including banks and insurance companies. Great Lakes ship owners likewise heckled at the threat of invasion of their fresh-water domain by foreign craft...
...Justice's handling of Cleveland's Union Mortgage Co. case; 13) water resources of the Sacramento, San Joaquin and Kern Rivers; 14) rents in the District of Columbia; 15) campaign expenditures; 16) R. F. C. loans; 17) the Columbia and Snake rivers; 18) Government economy; 19) the St. Lawrence Seaway treaty...
...first night was spent at anchor at Morris Cove near New Haven. Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the New York Power Authority, boarded the Myth II to discuss the St. Lawrence seaway. The second day. Skipper Roosevelt piloted his craft 50 mi. along the shore to Stonington, Conn. That night's visitors included J. Howard McGrath, Rhode Island's Democratic State Chairman...
...years the U. S. and Canada have been inconclusively dickering about developing the St. Lawrence as a seaway...