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...Washington Ives steered clear of the label, "Mr. Dewey's Senator," and voted and acted strictly according to his own lights. A pioneer Ikeman; he has nevertheless disagreed with the President on some issues (examples: he voted against the St. Lawrence Seaway, which he considered a threat to New York's seaboard interests, and the housing bill, which he called inadequate...
...didn't always make home runs but we did have 54 hits . . . Now that, after all, is a batting average of .830. And any baseball fan will tell you, that's pretty good going in any league." He recalled some of the hits: St. Lawrence Seaway, tax reform bill, the new farm bill. Later, the President said that he was disappointed with the speech; he had tried to do too much in 30 minutes. But at least the speech was over. His shoulders sagged with relief the moment he went...
When completed in 1959, the project will generate more power than TVA. New York and Ontario will share equally in the cost ($600 million) and in the power (12.6 billion kilowatt-hours a year). The dam will fit into the St. Lawrence Seaway system, scheduled for completion...
...plan, which will eventually cost $700 million to $1 billion, is to divert the flow of the Yukon and other rivers, build storage dams, tunnels, penstocks and generating plants that could provide 4,300,000 horsepower of electricity, about twice what can be got from the St. Lawrence Seaway power project. All these installations, as well as the metalworking plants which would use the power, would be located in Canada...
...will be rolling down from the mines to the Seven Islands docks. Some ore will go by sea to Baltimore and Philadelphia. The rest will go in shallow-draft ships down the St. Lawrence to the steel mills of Cleveland and Pittsburgh and inland Canada. When the St. Lawrence Seaway is ready, oceangoing freighters can do all the carrying. By 1957 about 10 million tons of ore a year will be coming out of Ungava's veins, and the world's mightiest industrial nation need not worry about iron to feed its factories...