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...immediate purpose of the Queen's visit is to inaugurate, with President Eisenhower in Montreal next week, the St. Lawrence Seaway.* Beyond that, the tour arrangers' purpose was to let Elizabeth see "something of the life of the average Canadian," and to let Canada see the Queen whose full Canadian title is "Elizabeth the Second, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and her other realms and territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith." When the Queen's silver Cornet touches down at Newfoundland's St. John's Airport...
...City Council yesterday put off a scheduled conference on the reported plan to put a $50 million apartment house development on the MTA yards, because the plan's local proponent is touring the St. Lawrence Seaway...
...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...
...almost every port on the Great Lakes, exuberant civic welcomes awaited the ships. Cleveland geared up a ten-week celebration of the seaway opening. Chicago organized a parade to city hall for the first ship to arrive. Even as the lock gates yawned a welcome to the world's shipping, Midwestern industrialists began to count their gains. In a bow to the seaway's competition, Eastern railroads proposed a reduction of 10% to 30% on freight between the lake ports and the Atlantic seaboard...