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Canada watched the U.S. Congress with more than usual interest this week. The St. Lawrence Seaway project was up for consideration again...
...said he would offer the plan as an amendment to either the Flood Control Bill or the Rivers & Harbors Bill, both due for debate. He insisted that a treaty is not necessary. By executive decree the U.S. traded 50 destroyers to Great Britain in exchange for air bases. The Seaway project might be realized the same...
...aimed to offset the deadly Allied location devices and methods which ruined the U-boats in 1942-43. But the sub commanders are more "shy, cautious and nervous" than they used to be. The "largest ocean supply convoy of all time" -167 ships spread over 26 square miles of seaway and carrying 1,000,000 tons of cargo-recently arrived in Britain without meeting a single U-boat attack on the way. Like most Atlantic convoys these days, this one was protected by an all-Canadian escort...
About a week out, the convoy steamed smoothly along the broad Atlantic seaway. Lookouts were on the alert. The ships were out of range of the landbased PBYs and Liberators which gave them anti-submarine protection on the first stage of their journey. Now they were on their...
...Next day he shouted that Senator Mead was not even a New Dealer-because Mead opposed Franklin Roosevelt's St. Lawrence River power and seaway project. (Jim Mead, resident of Buffalo, had strung along with Buffalo businessmen on this...