Word: seaway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moving on to Egypt's controversial-and still unbuilt-Aswan High Dam project as a U.S. consultant, he showed plenty of diplomatic savvy in reconciling the divergent views of U.S. and Egyptian engineers during preliminary work. Later he took over as director of dams on the St. Lawrence Seaway project, another job that required low-pressure diplomacy to resolve the conflicting desires of the U.S. and Canada. Last year Armstrong took a pay cut of almost 50% to go home to Utah and a $14,000-a-year job as director of the state's Road Commission. Utah...
...Since seaway construction started in 1954, Cook County (Chicago) Congressmen have twice voted unanimously to extend the tariff-chopping Reciprocal Trade Agreements...
...bypass is the only major seaway works in U.S. territory. Going upstream from Lake St. Francis, ships will move into the Wiley-Dondero Ship Channel, rise a total of 90 ft. in the Snell Lock and the Eisenhower Lock ("Ike's dike," in seaway slang), pass on into the new, still unnamed lake. At the western end of the lake, a 5-ft. lift in Ontario's Iroquois Lock will hoist westbound ships into the calm waters of the upper St. Lawrence for easy steaming upstream to Lake Ontario...
Four Bosses. The administration of the seaway and power project looks clumsy-but has worked fine. The Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario and the Power Authority of the State of New York evenly shared the $650 million cost of the power project, will evenly divide the electricity that it produces. The Washington-chartered St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. administered all seaway construction in the U.S., while Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway Authority managed all seaway work north of the border. Industrialist James L. Duncan and Civil Servant Bennett John Roberts ran Canada's power and seaway agencies...
...trade promoters like to call the Eighth Sea, the Fourth Coast, the North American Mediterranean. The main payloads on the old 14-ft. canals - iron ore upstream from Labrador and wheat downstream to Montreal-will fill the holds of probably nine-tenths of the ships on the new canal. Seaway planners forecast a traffic load of 25 million tons on the new seaway next season-just double the old seaway's 13 million tons of 1957-and 50 million tons a year...