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...Lawrence Seaway project-and Congress has just as consistently refused. Chief stumbling bloc: the Congressmen from the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts who fear that the seaway might divert trade from ports in their states. Last week, however, another seaway bill went to the floor of the Senate, and breaks soon appeared in the traditional anti-seaway dike...
Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy, realizing that the seaway is inevitable (Canada is already set to build it, with the U.S. or without), saw a chance for some Yankee trading, announced that he would support the bill...
...reasoning: if New England helps the states that stand to benefit from the seaway, then those states might be more willing to help lift New England from its economic slough. Soon to follow Kennedy's lead was New Jersey's G.O.P. Senator Alexander Smith, who said he would switch from opposition to the bill as a matter of loyalty to Eisenhower...
...discussed the St. Lawrence Seaway...
...shippers are all boosters for the St. Lawrence Seaway. They know that what they are hauling represents only a small fraction of the overseas trade that could be carried on by Midwestern cities. One company, the Dutch Oranje line, is building a combination passenger-freighter which it hopes will be the pacesetter if the seaway project goes through...