Word: seaway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Supporters of the Seaway, mostly mid-westerners, point rapturously to the benefits of connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, which they believe would make Chicago the commercial capital of the world. They argue that the Seaway could relieve much of the pressure now taxing the country's overloaded transportation system. Minnesotans claim that the great Mesabi iron ore deposits that feed the mid-west steel mills are nearly played out, and if cheap Labrador ores can't be shipped down the St. Lawrence, an unthinkable dislocation of the steel industry will occur. Senator Wiley of Wisconsin warned in recent...
When the U.S. Senate voted to send the St. Lawrence Seaway proposal back to the Foreign Relations Committee on February 27, smothering it for this session, a long and respectable tradition was once more upheld. The St. Lawrence question has arrived on Congressional floors in various guises in the past--as a treaty with Canada, as a joint resolution of both Houses, and as an amendment to another bill--and invariably it has fallen before an unfavorable vote...
Franklin Roosevelt tried to have it passed in treaty form in March, 1934. No less than 22 Democrats stormed across party lines to hand FDR his first major defeat. As an amendment to the Rivers and Harbors Bill in 1944, the Seaway was an easier victim, and last month's de facto rejection showed the opposition in comfortable command with a 27 vote majority...
...project itself has two sides. It calls for the creation of a 27-foot channel that will allow ocean-going vessels to steam from the Atlantic to any of the ports on the Great Lakes. The Seaway's second feature is a power-producing chain of dams on the St. Lawrence which would provide locks for navigation. As now conceived, the entire enterprise is estimated at $720,000,000, although opponents claim that expenses would run much higher...
...Massachusetts Senators, Lodge and Saltonstall, have been among the Seaway's most vociferous opponents. Lodge held that the 27-foot channel wouldn't be deep enough to allow passage for more than a small percentage of U.S. ships. He pointed out that the river was frozen over in the winter anyhow. Casting suspicion on the cost estimates in general, Lodge compared the planning to "a man running across the country like a house afire with his shirt tail out." Saltonstall felt that provisions to give New York control of power facilities were bad for the surrounding states. "New York will...