Word: seaway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through a 5½-mile tunnel bored in solid rock 300 feet below the heart of Niagara Falls, Ont., and into a giant penstock to create 600,000 h.p. of electricity for fast-growing southern Ontario. The project, not to be confused with the much-debated St. Lawrence seaway, was approved in a treaty signed between the U.S. and Canada last year...
Others, presuming that normal appropriation bills and war expenses would be cared for somehow, suggested laws to abolish racial segregation in the District of Columbia, a permanently-financed Point Four program, approval of the St. Lawrence Seaway project, and creation of a new Cabinet post of Peace and Human Welfare...
...This is the bill for the St. Lawrence Seaway Project. It literally has everything--power for defense which could mean as much to us as Muscle Shoals and the later T.V.A. did in World War II; an interior and defensible route for iron ore from Labrador in war or peace; opening to deep water transportation the entire heart of the Mississippi Valley; and all this for an investment of less than $1,000,000,000, split between Canada and the United States in such a way as to create an additional tie between the two countries. It would develop...
...North Americans, even such a massive undertaking as that is no real obstacle. The real block to the seaway, through 50 years of weary debate since it was first proposed, has been the anti-seaway lobby. Its members include railroads fearful of losing traffic, coal and power companies fearful of low-cost competition, seaports from Boston to Galveston that would lose some shipping. The coalition has managed to frustrate the efforts of every U.S. President since Wilson and every New York governor since Al Smith to push the seaway through Congress...
This time, if the lobby wins again, its victory may cost the U.S. dear. Canada is ready to tackle the seaway alone if the U.S. is still undecided by the end of 1951. An all-Canadian route would be somewhat more difficult to build, but the extra cost would come to only $30 million. Canada could finance the whole project if it had to, and there is no impossible problem of engineering or supply. U.S. business in the end would have to pay most of the bill through toll charges, and U.S. shipping might be hurt by discriminatory rates...