Word: soo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walk. Thus this week one of the world's most strategic locks was formally opened to deep-laden, deep-tooting ore boats. The lock, named for General Douglas MacArthur, is the newest on the Sault Ste. Marie Canal, the most vital waterway in the U.S. Through the Soo passes 80% of the iron ore (mainly from Minnesota's Mesabe range) that U.S. steel mills feed into the U.S. war machine...
Thus ended a three-year nightmare for top war production officials; one saboteur's lucky blast heretofore could have wrecked the two big side-by-side Soo locks, leaving but one small lock to carry the ore, and so throttle steel production...
...problem was to lick the manpower and housing shortage, the intense, bone-chilling 35°-below-zero Soo winters, in order to slash the 20-month scheduled estimate. When weary workers poured the last concrete-mix a fortnight ago, the scheduled time had been slashed by seven months. For this feat, an Army and Navy E went to the Great Lakes company...
Last week the car ferry Sainte Marie, queen of the icebreakers, pushed her broad armored nose through the Straits of Mackinac, heading for the Soo Locks. Behind her crept ten freighters, riding light or loaded with Ohio coal, all eager to be first to move on the Lakes in the year 1943. The icebreaker made it, but all the freighters were trapped in the icy fastness of Whitefish Bay. Even the Sainte Marie's propeller, which sucks water from under the ice so that its heavy bow can more readily pulverize it, could not free them-they just...
...load only six at a time. Escanaba had more than the weather to complain about: only recently WPB stopped work on a $58,000,000 War Department program to enlarge Escanaba loading facilities, and to provide a large-scale alternative route in case bombs or sabotage knocked out the Soo...