Word: soo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great Soo Locks at the eastern tip of Superior and the narrow Straits of Mackinac that connect Lake Michigan with Lake Huron are the twin bottlenecks through which 85% of the nation's vast iron ore production flows to U.S. blast furnaces. The ore moves eastward to the Soo from Minnesota's Mesabi Range, then southwest to Gary, southeast to Cleveland, Youngstown and Pittsburgh...
...Lakes fleet of 750 vessels will be ready, with crews signed on, bunkers filled, provisions aboard, and steam up when the ice breaks up at Duluth, at the Soo, at Cleveland, at Buffalo. Between that date and early December, the 300-odd U.S. and Canadian ore boats will have to move more ore than was ever before thought possible. They will have to carry 90 million tons, or better-mostly from Duluth and Superior to the lower Lake ports-750-1,000 miles by water. Last year they carried 80 million tons (20% more than the previous record...
This week ice breakers are out, smashing a channel to the Soo canal. Behind them Coast Guard boats are placing buoys, checking lights. At the ore docks, 70-ton cars of ore from the fabulous Mesabi range wait for the first ships, the Great Northern Railway men stand by, ready to smash a record made last October-333 ships loaded, at an average time of 2 hr. 35 min. per ship...
...brawla, brawla, soo...
...authors of The Hut-Sut Song-to whose bouncing tune the lyrics of Hot Shot Dawson can easily be sung-last week kept silent as soo-it, mum as a rillerah...