Word: waterway
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...bills-something of a pork barrel measure. The scene in the House at passage seems less like a logrolling match than a cat and dog fight. There were three parts of the bill that aroused special opposition: 1) An appropriation of $1,500,000 to provide a nine-foot waterway from Chicago to the Mississippi River, thereby connecting the Great Lakes and the Gulf. 2) $100,000 for a survey of the so-called All-American route (through New York) for a canal for large vessels from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic (TIME, April 5, SHIPPING) and an appropriation...
...delegations of the Great Lakes states, all except Illinois, led by the veteran onetime Senator Burton of Ohio, fought the Illinois waterway tooth and nail, because they alleged it would lower the level of the lakes. They also charged that the survey of the All-American route was a waste of money because the project was impracticable. Another group opposed the Cape Cod Canal purchase, charging that it. was an attempt to unload an unprofitable* private enterprise on the Government...
...great river Pei-ho forms the high-waterway through Peking and Tientsin to the Yellow Sea. By the terms of the Boxer Protocol of 1901 it must be kept open in the interest of the Great Powers. Last week a handful of Chinese mercenaries blocked it to shipping...
...other main fields are under consideration. One is the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence, including the Erie canal. This includes stabilizing the lake level, and is both a waterway and power project. A joint commission of the United States and Canada is working on plans and surveys. . . . The other is the Mississippi River system. This is almost entirely devoted to navigation. Work on the Ohio River will be completed in about three years. A modern channel connecting Chicago, New Orleans, Kansas City and Pittsburgh should be laid out and work on the tributaries prosecuted...
...Presidents Harding and Coolidge both have leaned upon him in solving some of their most onerous problems. He is called upon in labor troubles (in coal mining, etc.), in the settlement of War Debts (he is one of the Debt Funding Commission); he is Chairman of the St. Lawrence Waterway Commission; he is an expert on economic conditions in Europe and the Orient. The Bureau of Mines and the Patent Office were recently transferred to his control. He will probably have a controlling voice in Government policy towards commercial aviation. Last week a civil committee, appointed by him without anyone...