Word: seaway
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Fall is the peak export season along the shores of the St. Lawrence Seaway, where grain and industrial goods leave the American and Canadian heartland on the way to destinations around the world. Last week the artery linking Lake Ontario and Lake Erie was suddenly choked off when a concrete wall in one of the Welland Canal's eight locks collapsed. A section of lock No. 7 slammed into the side of the Liberian-registered Furia, a ship carrying 16,000 tons of wheat from Milwaukee to Alexandria, Egypt. Nine other vessels were trapped inside the canal; 21 were stranded...
...mishap could not have come at a worse time for grain exporters. Their shipping season ends Dec. 16, shortly before the seaway freezes up, although on occasion the seaway has been kept open an extra week or two when weather permitted. For Thunder Bay, Ont., the world's largest grain-exporting port, a lengthy shutdown could imperil the delivery of 6 million tons of Canadian wheat and animal feed bound for the Soviet Union. At the port of Milwaukee, ( 20,000 tons of food destined for famine victims in Africa and India last week sat piled up on the docks...
Canada, which runs the seaway with the U.S., was blamed by some port directors for failing to maintain its side of the aging system. Opened in 1959 by President Eisenhower, who hailed it as an economic boon for the region, the seaway links the Atlantic Ocean, the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario to the rest of the Great Lakes. The seaway experienced a first catastrophe last year, when a lift bridge at Valleyfield, Que., jammed. That caused an 18-day shutdown and cost shippers more than $40 million in lost business. At an Ottawa press conference last week, William...
...retaining wall, and engineers assessed the damage. Authorities said that repairs could take between three and four weeks. Owners lose between $5,000 and $20,000 a day operating idle, loaded vessels, and some of them began furloughing crews and tying up their ships. Meanwhile, port directors feared that seaway customers might switch to East Coast and Gulf ports in the future. Said Duluth, Minn., Port Director Davis Halberg: "With bad problems two years in a row, it looks like we're going to have to resell the seaway to shippers all over again. That may not be easy...
...Governor of Vermont (1937-1941), who after five decades in politics still referred to himself as a New England land farmer; in Montpelier, Vt. A blunt-spoken maverick whose liberal views often nettled his party, Aiken led efforts to bring electricity to rural America, to build the St. Lawrence Seaway and to create the nationwide food-stamp program. His campaigns were noted for their thrift. Expenses often totaled less than $20-for stamps to send "thank you" letters to people who had, unasked, circulated his reelection petitions. Aiken became famous for suggesting in 1966 that the solution to the Viet...