Word: seaway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even shipping lines are potshotting the Seaway. The Atlantic States Shippers Advisory Board claims: 1) only 5% of U.S. ships over 2,000 tons could use the Seaway; 2) only 30% of foreign ships over 2,000 tons could navigate it; 3) only the smallest U.S. Naval craft could...
...trouble with these figures is while 1939 ships are sinking fast, 1941 ships are getting bigger. Of 384 ships abuilding in the Maritime Commission's emergency program, only around 30 could keep their keels off the Seaway bottom...
Power. The International Section generators cannot be furnishing power before 1945. But with TVA and Bonneville working overtime on aluminum production, the Seaway's power possibilities look unusually inviting in 1941. That industrial New York State needs more power is plain. By 1942 its power capacity will be 5,266.000 kw.; but 1944 demand (not counting that of two aluminum plants proposed last week-see p. 28) is estimated at 5,176,000 kw. by the New York State Power Authority, which calls this slender margin "unthinkable...
...defense" project, the Seaway's best point is that shipbuilders' ways at Ashtabula and Lorain on the Great Lakes could be put to work on ocean vessels in a couple of years. The Navy is already building .small submarines at Manitowoc, Wis. Said Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr.: "Should the Axis powers be victorious, they would commence a shipbuilding race against the U.S. with the shipbuilding facilities of the entire European coasts, which are several times larger than our own. In that event...
Help or Hindrance? The Seaway is one of those vast, mountain-skipping ideas that most Americans instinctively like, and that seem to swallow the objections of interested parties like a century of U.S. history. Yet Americans are also logical, and in 1941 the logical question about such a project is: does it help or hinder defense? Whatever it does to rail traffic, the Seaway job must divert men and materials from the manufacture of planes, guns, ships...