Word: seaway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week in Washington, the vast, controversial St. Lawrence seaway project was back in the news. The seaway, a $935 million plan, which would open the North American heartland to ocean shipping and release a mighty flow of new electric power, has been kicked around between planners, engineers and hard-boiled lobbyists for half a century. Now President Truman is sending his top men (headed by Secretaries Acheson and Marshall) to make a positive case for the project before the House Public Works Committee. Reason: the seaway's vital importance to Western defense, and, incidentally, to U.S.-Canadian unity...
...chance for congressional approval of a 1941 Canadian-American agreement for joint construction of the project looks better than usual. But it is far from assured. The anti-seaway lobby is still deeply entrenched on Capitol Hill. Meanwhile, Canadian patience is wearing thin. Said External Affairs Minister Lester ("Mike") Pearson in Ottawa last week: "The Americans say we are dragging our feet in world affairs. The biggest and longest dragging of feet I have known in my entire career is that of the Americans on the St. Lawrence seaway...
Ports & Power. Seaway opponents have long tried to write the project off as a white elephant, but most unbiased investigators have concluded that it makes such obvious economic and engineering sense that its construction some day is inevitable. If & when it is built, the seaway will...
...point of Labrador iron ore alone, Western strategists shudder to think of total war with no seaway. With the great Mesabi deposits inexorably running out, Labrador is the only known alternative source that could be made completely safe from submarines. This has lined the Pentagon up in earnest support of the seaway. It has also won over the Midwestern steel companies, many major manufacturers (including General Motors, Nash-Kelvinator, Ford) and some influential Senators-notably Ohio's Taft...
...John Masefield the poet has kept close companionship with the hearts of a generation of British and U.S. readers. In rhythms as forthright as the beat of a yeoman's pulse and lines as graceful as the curtsy of a tall East Indiaman in the wallow of a seaway, his verses have sung of the countrysides Britons love, of the sports and sportsmen dear to their hearts and of the gallant voyaging that is the stuff of their history...