Word: seaway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight was over control of the electric-power plants the New Deal has built (Tennessee Valley Authority, Bonneville, Grand Coulee), is building (Shasta, Red River, Santee-Cooper), and hopes to build (Arkansas River, St. Lawrence Seaway). One man wanted to control them all. The man: doughty, venomous, honest Harold LeClair Ickes, Secretary of the Interior...
...Committee, the traditional headquarters for Congressional pork-lovers. The headquarters has lately seen lean times; all the fat cuts have gone to the military and naval committees. Moodily the committee contemplated a project of which it is suspicious: the President's pet, the $285,000,000 St. Lawrence Seaway. The committee had stalled, still was far from a decision. Then the President suddenly wrote a friendly letter to Chairman Joseph Jefferson Mansfield, saying he would not oppose including the Seaway in an omnibus appropriation bill. This was the signal the wolves were waiting for; the door to the icebox...
...Including 900,000 kw. for the St. Lawrence Seaway (TIME, July 7), which Congress has yet to approve...
Army engineers figure the Seaway would require 10,000 men (mostly unskilled), 84,000,000 board feet of lumber (3% of 1940's record output), 130,000 tons of steel (around one half day's U.S. output), 6,650,000 bbl. of cement (5.1% of 1940-5 output). A sharper squeeze would be felt when builders start after dredges, pneumatic hammers, giant cranes, electrical equipment, all now as scarce as they were plentiful five years...
After being kicked around for 46 years, the Seaway strikes an awkward pose as an emergency measure in 1941. But the real question is how it will look...