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...story on the St. Lawrence Seaway, which accompanies four pages of scenic river views in color in this week's issue, was written by Edwin Copps, senior writer in the CANADA section, who was born in Eganville, near Ottawa. Researcher for the story is another Canadian, Harriet Ben Ezra, who was born in Winnipeg. Working on the story of the actual start of the seaway was a pleasing assignment for Copps. "It made Harriet and me feel sort of patriotic," he said...
...River, seaward outlet of the world's busiest inland waterway, a century-old dream is coming true. A work force of 15,000 men, with the most modern construction machines, is gathering on the U.S. and Canadian banks of the river to build the long-heralded St. Lawrence Seaway and power development. When it is finished in 1959, some 13 billion kilowatt hours of low-cost electricity, three times the output of Hoover Dam, will be generated annually by the river's waters for U.S. and Canadian industry. The river and the Great Lakes it drains will...
...renaissance: Cleveland, a new chemical capital, was fast becoming a major auto-producing center with new semi-automatic Ford and Chevrolet factories. Along with Chicago, Detroit and other Great Lakes cities, Cleveland in 1954 could look forward to a new commercial life with the passage of the St. Lawrence Seaway Act. In a few years the new waterway would make them world-trading seaports...
POWER PROJECT on the St. Lawrence, part of a joint U.S.-Canadian plan to develop the seaway, will he financed by one of the biggest bond issues ever. The U.S. share alone, which will go on public sale this week, will come to $330 million. The Aluminum Co. of America has already agreed to buy about one-third of the U.S. output for its upstate New York plants...
...Hampshire: Republican Norris Cotton, 54, after eight years in the House, won a promotion to the unexpired term of the late Charles Tobey. He has backed the Administration program down the line, except on public housing and the St. Lawrence Seaway project...