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...broadened his reach by putting up more than $1,000,000 to buy the 52-year-old Economist, a bustling biweekly whose Southtown and Southeast editions blanket 22% of metropolitan Chicago-including the Lake Calumet area, where Chicago is building a vast new industrial complex on the St. Lawrence Seaway. The ad-fat Economist (circ. 152,000), which has more, than 100 staffers, also has a battling tradition. Example: crying "land steal," it has vociferously fought grandiose plans for a convention palace on the lake front, as decreed long ago by the late Colonel Bertie McCormick and still pushed...
...their own features, mold editorial policies to suit their own communities. Boasted Publisher Gannett: "Nothing ever goes out of my office with a 'must' on it." Example: though Gannett and his flagship paper, Rochester's evening Times-Union (circ. 128,147), zealously promoted the St. Lawrence Seaway, his Albany Knickerbocker News (circ. 53,870) doggedly fought the project as an economic threat to Albany...
...Kennedy became the first Massachusetts Senator or Representative to vote for the St. Lawrence Seaway, for decades considered a deadly threat to the state's ports. His reasoning: if necessary, Canada was going ahead alone on the seaway and, that being the case, the U.S. might as well share in the general benefits. Some New England papers promptly dubbed Kennedy "the Suicide Senator...
...SEAWAY BATTLE over St. Lawrence will flare up again next month when U.S. and Canadian governments begin work on setting toll rates. Eastern businessmen, railroadmen, truckers and shippers (who originally opposed seaway, now favor it) have formed 22-state group to fight for high tolls, which would make Midwestern ports less competitive. But Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Association is lobbying hard for rock-bottom tolls in first years of the seaway to attract new business...
...Toll rates on the St. Lawrence Seaway and the allocation of revenues. ¶ Canada's lopsided trade deficit with the U.S., and ground rules for U.S. businesses operating in Canada...