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...regained many of the lost markets. We helped the lowest-income people in agriculture. We brought social security for the first time to operators of family farms. We refunded to farmers the $60 million-a-year federal tax on farm gasoline. We started the great St. Lawrence Seaway project-the 30-year dream of Midwestern farm families . . . And we turned prices back up-without...
SHIPPING SUBSIDIES will be extended to U.S. lines using the St. Lawrence Seaway. To forestall a trade monopoly by foreign-flag freighters, whose costs are lower, the Maritime Administration has designated the seaway an essential trade route, is ready to spend some $8,000,000 annually to put U.S. shippers in an equal competitive position...
...deadline, sending in their appropriation requests on the notorious "green sheets," and their justifications on white "language sheets." Soon afterward, the Budget offices buzzed with final hearings, as the bureau's examiners delved deep into controversial items. For example, in considering the money request from the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp., Budgetmen asked to see maps of dam locations, asked why one dam was not located at a narrows. Answer: rock formations made construction more costly at the narrows than elsewhere...
...previous 21. Or even New England, which put its brains to work and found new research and electronics industries after textiles slumped. Or Buffalo. Cleveland or Toledo, little Detroits all, and all building in anticipation of the opening of the Lake Erie portion of the St. Lawrence Seaway...
...only $80 a ton for its new facilities, v. $300 a ton for entirely new capacity. The company is equally well fixed for raw materials. It has contracted for one-quarter of the rich ore that is already trickling in (and will pour in via the St. Lawrence Seaway by 1959) from the vast Labrador-Quebec fields, owns ore mines in four U.S. states and Liberia, operates its own coal mines and limestone quarries...