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...Including 900,000 kw. for the St. Lawrence Seaway (TIME, July 7), which Congress has yet to approve...
...defense" project, the Seaway's best point is that shipbuilders' ways at Ashtabula and Lorain on the Great Lakes could be put to work on ocean vessels in a couple of years. The Navy is already building .small submarines at Manitowoc, Wis. Said Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr.: "Should the Axis powers be victorious, they would commence a shipbuilding race against the U.S. with the shipbuilding facilities of the entire European coasts, which are several times larger than our own. In that event...
Help or Hindrance? The Seaway is one of those vast, mountain-skipping ideas that most Americans instinctively like, and that seem to swallow the objections of interested parties like a century of U.S. history. Yet Americans are also logical, and in 1941 the logical question about such a project is: does it help or hinder defense? Whatever it does to rail traffic, the Seaway job must divert men and materials from the manufacture of planes, guns, ships...
Army engineers figure the Seaway would require 10,000 men (mostly unskilled), 84,000,000 board feet of lumber (3% of 1940's record output), 130,000 tons of steel (around one half day's U.S. output), 6,650,000 bbl. of cement (5.1% of 1940-5 output). A sharper squeeze would be felt when builders start after dredges, pneumatic hammers, giant cranes, electrical equipment, all now as scarce as they were plentiful five years...
After being kicked around for 46 years, the Seaway strikes an awkward pose as an emergency measure in 1941. But the real question is how it will look...