Word: waterways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through mud, sand, shell and stone. About eight months ago, the Caribbean had started north from Brownsville, the Miami south from Corpus Christi. Last week the big cutting blades of the dredges slashed through the last barriers between them-completing the last link in the $80 million Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, which already stretched from Florida's Apalachee Bay to Corpus Christi...
...cotton growers, oilmen and cattlemen of the Lower Rio Grande, it was as historic a moment as the coming of the railroads. Through the waterway, freight barges could be towed all the way from Brownsville, Tex. to Florida-1,116 miles -without exposure to the open sea. Cried one Texan: "A shining strand linking together those jewels of progress into a fabulous necklace along the curving bosom of the Gulf...
When redheaded Dave Beck took office, the gusty breath of all this excitement still hung in the air. The headsaws of lumber mills screamed along almost every lake and waterway. Loggers, fishermen, sailors and bums lounged by the hundreds beside the Skidroad's missions, hash joints and flophouses. Seattle's tough cops still took pride in using force sufficient to make an arrest, and dragged in many a prisoner by the heels...
...rift stopped there. At the conference table, Yugoslavia and five other Communist-dominated countries stood squarely behind Russia's Andrei Vishinsky when he took a high-handed line indicating that the Communists intended to keep Western nations off Europe's greatest waterway. This policy would cost the Yugoslavs and the. other Danube countries dearly. From the heights above Belgrade one could scan the Danube in vain for signs of the heavy traffic it had carried before...
...Lawrence Waterway...