Word: seaway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lawrence Seaway, storied ship route to the heart of the continent, is in business. For the first time in history, deep-draft ocean vessels can bypass the shallows of the upper St. Lawrence, steam through a system of locks and 27-ft. channels to the Great Lakes...
...crept through the approach to the St. Lambert lock. Just astern came the icebreaker Montcalm, and after her four shoebox-shaped canalboats, veterans of the St. Lawrence's old 14-ft. waterways and sentimental favorites to head the procession of Canadian, American and foreign cargo carriers into the seaway...
GRACE LINE won first subsidy from the Maritime Administration to operate from the Great Lakes to the Caribbean. Grace will begin service with six ships when St. Lawrence Seaway opens this spring...
...recession, Canada's own underdevelopment was one of its biggest assets. Even giant projects get lost in the huge U.S. economy. In Canada's relatively small economy, the sheer momentum of big basic projects (TransCanada gas pipeline, St. Lawrence Seaway) kept payrolls and profits at near-record levels. Unlike the U.S. Government, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's Tory government found it feasible to finance antirecession measures. Tax cuts and increased social-welfare payments encouraged consumers to buy at record rates. A $350 million government mortgage-loan program pushed housing to an alltime peak (160,000 starts...
Kennedy has his sights fixed on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and his Senatorial record provides ample evidence of inconsistency, party politicking, and even desertion of the basic needs of this state. Although he refused to vote against the St. Lawrence Seaway, Kennedy introduced a bill supporting a higher U.S. tariff on fish. His support of the jury-trial amendment was received favorably in the South, but not in Northern liberal strongholds. His stand against McCarthyism, moreover, came too late in the game to be counted as a display of anything but opportunism...