Word: seaway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forces of progress, which for more than 30 years have been mounting against opposition to the St. Lawrence Seaway project, last week broke over the top and cascaded to a 51-33 victory in the U.S. Senate. The year's first legislative success for the Eisenhower Administration was achieved by mustering as many Republican as Democratic votes, and came as a result of expert preparation in the backwaters of Capitol Hill...
...defections left the anti-seaway bloc weakened, but not dead. With Senate passage virtually assured, the opposition gathered its forces for a strong stand in the House...
...Lawrence Seaway project-and Congress has just as consistently refused. Chief stumbling bloc: the Congressmen from the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts who fear that the seaway might divert trade from ports in their states. Last week, however, another seaway bill went to the floor of the Senate, and breaks soon appeared in the traditional anti-seaway dike...
Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy, realizing that the seaway is inevitable (Canada is already set to build it, with the U.S. or without), saw a chance for some Yankee trading, announced that he would support the bill...
...reasoning: if New England helps the states that stand to benefit from the seaway, then those states might be more willing to help lift New England from its economic slough. Soon to follow Kennedy's lead was New Jersey's G.O.P. Senator Alexander Smith, who said he would switch from opposition to the bill as a matter of loyalty to Eisenhower...