Word: seaway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the steel mill proposal, will come a redoubled effort on the part of New England businessmen to block the St. Lawrence Seaway. If the ore from Labrador could travel down the St. Lawrence to the Great Lake ports, the geographical advantage of a New England steel mill would be materially diminished. The prospect of an important industry in New England threatened by the Seaway may well be the reason why New England senators fight the St. Lawrence project...
Beyond the budget (except for some token down payments) are items to get Harry Truman's welfare-state program under way and also for the full cost of such projects as the St. Lawrence Seaway ($600 million to $1 billion). Items...
Officials of Atlantic and Gulf ports have been calling the Seaway all sorts of names ever since it first came up. They paint tragic pictures of ocean commerce steaming to Chicago and Duluth, leaving New York, Boston, and New Orleans little more than ghost towns. On the other hand, big shipping firms stated flatly that they wouldn't use the Seaway; Senator Morse retorted that they would when they found it profitable. Senator Aiken of Vermont roundly scored the shippers, saying that "since 1936 they have had their hands in the Federal Treasury, clear up to the armpits...
...Seaway proponents have hotly accused the big interests--railroads, shipping, and power--of exerting pressure behind the scenes to kill the program each time it came up. After the 1934 battle had been lost, Senator La Follette declared that the opposition was in the hands of J.P. Morgan. On continual guard against governmental power projects, private power companies realize the vast potentialities of the St. Lawrence. In 1921, Alcoa, General Electric, and Du Pont wanted to buy the rights for power development on the river from Ogdensburg, New York, to Montreal. They were willing to throw the navigation...
Both factions have been loud and determined, and have rarely been concerned by conflicting arguments within their ranks. The Seaway has proved itself a regional issue, defying party precepts and platforms. In the recent fight, for instance, New York's governor and junior senator, both Republicans, were in direct opposition, and in 1946, Chicago's Ed Kelly and Henry Wallace joined in praise of it. Now, of course, the cry of the Mid-West is "wait 'til next year," when the venerable Seaway will make another appearance in the halls of Congress and probably be booted out again...