Word: seaway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About a week out, the convoy steamed smoothly along the broad Atlantic seaway. Lookouts were on the alert. The ships were out of range of the landbased PBYs and Liberators which gave them anti-submarine protection on the first stage of their journey. Now they were on their...
...Next day he shouted that Senator Mead was not even a New Dealer-because Mead opposed Franklin Roosevelt's St. Lawrence River power and seaway project. (Jim Mead, resident of Buffalo, had strung along with Buffalo businessmen on this...
...Chairman Joseph J. Mansfield of the House Rivers & Harbors Committee, Franklin Roosevelt sent a stern reminder that he had not yet gotten action on his long-cherished St. Lawrence Seaway. The Seaway is now a $277,000,000 item in a $990,000,000 catch-all pork-barrel bill. Its prospects are not good. The bill is buried deep down in the House calendar, with a conservative Rules Committee sitting on its chest. If it ever staggers up, bitter, bespectacled Representative Alfred Beiter of Buffalo, N.Y. (who sees his home town as a deserted village if the bill is passed...
...sheer scope, the project that came out of Harold Ickes' office this week made the St. Lawrence Seaway look like a seashore runnel dug by children with holiday spoons and pails. It would harness nearly as much power as the Seaway to start with, and power was a minor part of it. Its economics were admittedly more heretical than the Seaway's, but its urgency was greater too. Its cost was incalculable and unspecified. It embraced 25 States and Alaska. It took Harold Ickes 35 pages merely to outline it in a letter to Senator O'Mahoney...
...high-pressure turbine, with its leap from 30 to 50% energy-conversion, was greeted by powermen last week as one more potent argument against President Roosevelt's long dreamed-of St. Lawrence seaway-power project, which would threaten with a sceptre-like "yardstick" the great privately owned, steam-powered utility systems of the industrial Northeast. Utilitymen regard the new turbine as a symbol, great as the monumental dams of the several power Authorities, that their own spirit of technological pioneering is not moribund, as friends of Government power claim. As a sound dollars-&-cents weapon against Government control...