Word: seaway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...return a $24,000 annual retainer. A few weeks ago, somebody discovered the firm had received $184,000 in fees from the Pennsylvania Railroad. The deal has an odor because Bricker has voted for the railroad in all matters affecting it, including a vote against the St. Lawrence Seaway, which would make Cleveland a profitable deep-water port. The revelation has allowed Democrats to charge that Bricker votes for his client's interest over his constituents'. It will hurt him in the cities...
Fairchild has teed off instead on McCarthy's Senate voting record. To the state's large farm population, he points out the Senator's opposition to price supports and rural electrification. In the cities, he is castigating McCarthy for his vote against the St. Lawrence Seaway, which would bring profitable deep sea shipping to Milwaukee and Superior...
...billion asked for federal domestic agencies, chiefly by firing 100,000 employees and shaving secondary civilian programs. Among projects that can stand cutting: the school lunch program, since "the Depression has been over for years"; farm and education subsidies; debatable public works projects such as the St. Lawrence Seaway...
...deny that the Saint Lawrence Seaway is, as the lobbies claim, a sectional issue. But it is sectional only in its harmful effects: it will hurt the coastal ports and the railroads that service them. It's benefits, however, would be national, not sectional. One has only to look at past "sectional" projects--the TVA, the Panama Canal, the Grand Coulee Dam--all of which, though they hurt local interests, benefitted the whole nation...
Faced with the steel requirements for defense, and the plain fact that Canada has grown tired of waiting, Congress should join Canada on the Saint Lawrence Seaway project...