Word: seaway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March of Time makes stop-offs this time at the P.W.A.'s venture into the show business, the prospects of the St. Lawrence Seaway, and the activities of King Leopold of Belgium against Fascist Leo Degrelle and toward strongly armed neutrality...
...Following an" encouraging message on the advantages of a Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway sent to a conference of Sea way boosters in Detroit, the President announced that if he was in the White House next year at this time, he hoped to send a new St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty to the U. S. Senate and try again for ratification...
...most extensive maneuvers of the world's most powerful Navy continued last week somewhere within 5,000,000 sq. mi. of seaway at the top of the Pacific Ocean. But for all the nation that owned the Navy knew about them, the operations might as well have been held on the dark side of the moon. Greatest hardship fell on the U. S. Press, which grudgingly observed that the maneuvers were "a triumph for censorship." For lack of specific information, correspondents in Honolulu (those aboard the Fleet were virtually incommunicado) sent off tantalizing, imaginative tales about an expected "mass...
...same breath doughty "Mitch" promised drastic economy and costly relief. While raising widows' pensions and payments to the unemployed, he would "cut expenses in half." Coming out against the St. Lawrence seaway development he threatened to break Ontario's agreement with the Dominion to purchase St. Lawrence electric power developed on the Canadian site. "I promise a new deal," he cried, "and clean government!" On polling day Canadians cocked one eye upon Ontario, cocked the other upon Saskatchewan. Too grimly wrathful to throw eggs and tomatoes at their Conservative Premier J. T. M. Anderson, the smoldering sons...
...Isthmus of Panama, have all been subjected to opposition on the part of local interests." And he added a warning: "I call your attention to the simple fact that Canada alone can, if desired, build locks at the Lachine Rapids and at the international sector and thus provide a seaway wholly within Canadian control." A 27-ft. channel from Duluth to the sea (see map) would not mean that luxury liners could dock east of Chicago's Wrigley Building. But 70% of the world's ocean-going cargo tonnage would have access to the Great Lakes...