Word: seaway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honeymoon of Congress and the first Roosevelt Administration ended, like many a honeymoon, in a quarrel. One cause of the quarrel was a project that President Roosevelt had set his heart on ever since his days as Governor of New York: the St. Lawrence Seaway...
This pet project was gigantic-completed, the Seaway would permit ships of 24-foot draft to sail 2,350 miles from Duluth to the Atlantic in nine days. Among other things it called for two great dams (generating 2,200,000 h.p. of electrical energy) to be built on the International Rapids, where the St. Lawrence, slow-moving through most of its mighty length, falls 92 feet in 48 miles. It called for ten miles of canals and three great locks around these rapids, for navigation improvements through Lake St. Francis and the Soulanges Rapids farther downriver, for dams, locks...
...Congress had given President Roosevelt his way in most matters, but it balked at the Seaway. The Senate refused to ratify the treaty with Canada that had been signed in the last days of the Hoover Administration, although the President had twice sent messages urging its ratification. Last week he let it be known that he would bring up the Seaway again, in time for his prospective honeymoon with Congress during the third Administration. He had Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle publish the banns. In Detroit Mr. Berle read a Presidential message to a conference of Seaway supporters...
...objection to his scheme the President had anticipated. Hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1933 developed a mighty assemblage of opponents to the Seaway-shippers, economists, railroad men, representatives of the Port of New Orleans-speaking for interests that would be injured, or thought they would be injured, if the Seaway went through. And New York State's utilities had fought the Seaway from the start. Said the President: "Selfish interests will tell you that I am cloaking this great project in national defense in order to gain an objective which has always been dear...
...Drake Strait, reappear in the Antarctic. What Chile hoped to gain from the new colony was less explainable. Though deposits of minerals, principally coal, have been reported in the frozen Antarctic mountains, none of commercially profitable quality has ever been found. As a control point on the southern seaway between the Atlantic and Pacific, as a possible refueling base for a South America-Australia air route, the Antarctic presented only hazy possibilities. Its principal wealth lies in the $15,000,000 annual whaling business, in which Chile does not participate...