Word: seaway
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...outpost, the Mediterranean no longer was a British lake. The concept of the Mediterranean as the Empire's commercial life line has been dead since Italy's entrance into the war forced merchant ships to sail around the Cape of Good Hope. Now, even as a military seaway, choked by two such bottlenecks as the 100-mile strait between Sicily and Tunisia and the 250-mile stretch between Crete and Libya, it was of little...
...with grey hair, and a fond expression. Cares and grey hairs come to him from troublesome Premier Mitchell Hepburn of Ontario and scholarly Premier Adelard Godbout of Quebec; his fondness is reserved for Franklin Roosevelt. Last week Mr. King was happy: Messrs. Hepburn & Godbout were for the St. Lawrence Seaway project. Mr. King apprehensively asked whether the U. S. Government was really ready to go ahead...
...Hull. In the rain outside, men & women sloshed up & down Pennsylvania Avenue, now & then looking curiously at the White House. There rested their hopes, their problems, perhaps the shape of their fate. Unimportant, at the moment, were the Logan-Walter Bill that Mr. Roosevelt would veto, the St. Lawrence Seaway that he would promote, the controversies, vexations and misunderstandings of ordinary times. Mr. Roosevelt had asked for the job of dealing with just such a situation, and the U. S. had given him the job. Now the U. S. wanted to know what he was going to do about...
...there was something about the St. Lawrence Seaway. Like most gigantic projects of State planning-like Russia's White Sea Canal, Germany's Strength Through Joy automobile factories, France's Maginot Line-it was the kind of Big Job that made a strong appeal to the imagination. The thought of warships abuilding on sheltered inland seas, of ocean-going freighters plowing to the docks of Detroit, appealed to many a hardhead aware of the labyrinthine economic dangers of the project. It was impossible to estimate the cultural consequences of so vast an undertaking, the changed relations with...
...scheme was still only a scheme, in spite of the President's determined words. There was bound to be a hot time in Congress when the Seaway came up before it, next session. Public opinion might stop the plan, as it had stopped the Supreme Court reorganization bill. Or, like