Word: seaway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central domestic question of the role of Government in national life, liberal on civil rights, internationalist in foreign relations. As a Congressman, he took several stands that the Eisenhower Administration later adopted and translated into law: civil rights legislation, statehood for Alaska and Hawaii, construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway, relinquishment of federal claims to control of the tidelands. As a freshman Congressman, Nixon supported Harry Truman's program of aid to Communist-menaced Greece and Turkey, and he has remained a steadfast backer of foreign...
Between ice in and ice out, Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway Authority turned its efforts to remedying a problem that marred the waterway's inaugural season last year. Big seagoing vessels had such high wind-catching bows and their crews were so inexperienced in the narrow locks and channels that there were 76 accidents along the 27½ mile Welland Canal between Lakes Ontario and Erie. The authority spent $7,500,000 on new mooring walls and fender booms for the Welland, ordered all ships to carry special landing booms, stern anchors and winches. The equipment is sure...
...whom does Mr. Burns serve as advisor? Why, none other than the very same Senator Kennedy whom Mr. Chase so vehemently berates. Might we not query Mr. Chase as to how he accounts for Senator Kennedy's vote in favor of the St. Lawrence Seaway. . . . Or let us consider the Senator's prophetic call for Algerian self-determination--to whose selfish interests was he pandering then, all those "piggish, self-centered" Algerian voters in Boston? . . . Not to mention the Senator's courageous stand on the National Defense Education Act's inexcusable loyalty oath and affidavit provisions--undoubtedly brought about...
...Canada could not have built the Seaway - or even its own prosperity- by itself. More than anything else, an influx of U.S. capital investment has built Ca nadian prosperity. Items...
...Homemade Seaway. One conse quence of this unity is a Canadian pride in such symbols of well-being as the St. Lawrence Seaway (TIME, Dec. 7). Canadians seldom forget that they put up $340 million of the $475 million cost, regard it as a project of their own. "In the '30s," says one government expert, "it would have been unthinkable for Canada to pro pose to go ahead with the Seaway on its own. In the '50s, we were quite willing to do so, and I think most of us now regret that...