Word: seaway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plain matter of national self-interest," President Truman this week demanded U.S. participation in construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway and power project. Truman said in a message to Congress that an entirely new situation had been created by Canada's decision to build the seaway alone if the U.S. did not participate (see HEMISPHERE...
Talking directly to the seaway's opponents, "certain railroads and port interests," Truman warned that Canada would charge-tolls of U.S. ships, perhaps even after the cost of the seaway had been paid off. He argued that an inland (i.e., submarine-proof) route to bring iron ore from Labrador to U.S. steel mills was "of great importance to our national security." Said he: "No great nation has ever deliberately abandoned its interest in any of the vital waterways of the world...
Truman's message provoked an immediate outburst in the Senate by Texas' Tom Connally. "This project would be built on foreign territory," he snorted. "I am very much opposed to it and my people are opposed to it." Vermont's George Aiken, a seaway supporter, declared that Connally should resign as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee if he planned to block a vote. Connally kept right on snorting: "For five months of the year [the seaway] would be frozen up as hard as the mind of the Senator from Vermont...
...Fair Dealers are a minority; the majority, made up of loose-knit groups without common aim or discipline, did not and could not accept responsibility for developing a program. The frustration and division of Congress was such that it made no progress on such measures as the St. Lawrence seaway, statehood for Alaska and Hawaii, reapportionment and redistricting of congressional districts...
...Lawrence seaway...