Word: seaway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...international waterways be put under supervision by a series of small United Nations police forces. "How can we expect Colonel Nasser to internationalize Suez when the principle is restricted to him?" she asked. "There is always a colonial twist which brings forth bad memories when only one international seaway, is, in fact, internationalized...
PRIVATE POWER won long dispute over whether bulk of U.S. power from St. Lawrence Seaway project should go to private industry or to public systems. New York's Governor Harriman okayed sale to Reynolds Metals Co. of more than 25% of state's St. Lawrence power, on top of same amount already promised to Alcoa. Reynolds will build $88 million aluminum reduction plant on St. Lawrence near Massena, N.Y., and General Motors will put up aluminum casting foundry there, spur lagging industrialization in the upstate area...
...regained many of the lost markets. We helped the lowest-income people in agriculture. We brought social security for the first time to operators of family farms. We refunded to farmers the $60 million-a-year federal tax on farm gasoline. We started the great St. Lawrence Seaway project-the 30-year dream of Midwestern farm families . . . And we turned prices back up-without...
SHIPPING SUBSIDIES will be extended to U.S. lines using the St. Lawrence Seaway. To forestall a trade monopoly by foreign-flag freighters, whose costs are lower, the Maritime Administration has designated the seaway an essential trade route, is ready to spend some $8,000,000 annually to put U.S. shippers in an equal competitive position...
...deadline, sending in their appropriation requests on the notorious "green sheets," and their justifications on white "language sheets." Soon afterward, the Budget offices buzzed with final hearings, as the bureau's examiners delved deep into controversial items. For example, in considering the money request from the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp., Budgetmen asked to see maps of dam locations, asked why one dam was not located at a narrows. Answer: rock formations made construction more costly at the narrows than elsewhere...