Word: seaway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story on the St. Lawrence Seaway, which accompanies four pages of scenic river views in color in this week's issue, was written by Edwin Copps, senior writer in the CANADA section, who was born in Eganville, near Ottawa. Researcher for the story is another Canadian, Harriet Ben Ezra, who was born in Winnipeg. Working on the story of the actual start of the seaway was a pleasing assignment for Copps. "It made Harriet and me feel sort of patriotic," he said...
...River, seaward outlet of the world's busiest inland waterway, a century-old dream is coming true. A work force of 15,000 men, with the most modern construction machines, is gathering on the U.S. and Canadian banks of the river to build the long-heralded St. Lawrence Seaway and power development. When it is finished in 1959, some 13 billion kilowatt hours of low-cost electricity, three times the output of Hoover Dam, will be generated annually by the river's waters for U.S. and Canadian industry. The river and the Great Lakes it drains will...
...seaway's impact on both the geography and economy of the continent will be enormous. More than 8,000 miles of new coastline will be added to the U.S-s and Canada. Such lakefront cities as Chicago, Cleveland, l)uluth, Buffalo, Toronto and Hamilton will become genuine deepwater ports, 500 miles closer to Europe by seaway than at present. Goods now shipped by rail to the Atlantic from the U.S. Midwest at a cost of $13 a ton will be sent down the St. Lawrence to the sea for about $1.70. Millions will be spent along the waterfront to enlarge...
Every major city on the seaway route is planning waterfront improvements to attract shipping. Chicago will start work this summer on a $22.5 million dock expansion program; Toronto already has built a new million-dollar freight terminal, and is filling in waterfront sites for two more. Cleveland, Toledo, Duluth, Buffalo, Hamilton, Montreal and Quebec all have laid plans to better their harbors and build bigger docks. More than 40,000,000 tons of ocean cargo are expected to clear through the seaway in its first year of operation, yielding an average of $1 a ton in harbor fees and loading...
...renaissance: Cleveland, a new chemical capital, was fast becoming a major auto-producing center with new semi-automatic Ford and Chevrolet factories. Along with Chicago, Detroit and other Great Lakes cities, Cleveland in 1954 could look forward to a new commercial life with the passage of the St. Lawrence Seaway Act. In a few years the new waterway would make them world-trading seaports...