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Main stem dams have navigation locks, permitting the passage of vessels with 9-ft. drafts. Some 13,100,000 tons of traffic moved on this waterway last year. The Tennessee's ports are linked with those in 20 states. TVA officials claim that such navigation has stimulated the investment of some $875 million in shoreline industry in the valley...
...critics turned out to be wrong on both counts. Egypt has widened the canal with bypasses permitting three convoys daily to use the waterway more efficiently, and deepened it sufficiently to accommodate most of the world's tanker fleet. Last year 18.518 ships traveled through the canal, 370 more than in 1961. Further plans call for additional deepening of the canal, and making it two-way for its entire 102-mile length...
...balding Mahmoud Younis, 50, a onetime army engineer and a close friend of Nasser since the days when they shared an office at the Staff Officers College, Egypt's West Point. Though Younis had never sailed so much as a rowboat, Nasser picked him to run the busy waterway shortly after the British and French ship pilots withdrew from the canal in September 1956. At first, Younis had available only 26 trained pilots of the 250 normally required, but he kept the canal functioning around the clock. "I didn't know anything about ships." he said...
...past decade, nearly 4,500 new enterprises have located themselves along the inland waterways. Such proud East Coast seaports as New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore are losing cargo tonnage, but river and canal ports steadily gain. Brownsville, Texas, in 1961 handled an astounding 4,100,000 tons of cotton, chemicals, citrus fruit and coffee. Columbia River towns like Pasco and Umatilla have become blossoming grain ports. Biggest winner of all is bustling New Orleans, which in 1961 boosted its cargo business 8% to a record 61.3 million tons. Serving as the connecting point between the Mississippi River complex...
Maurice Hudson Thatcher is a gnarled, 92-year-old relic of Panama Canal construction days and still has a pioneer's proprietary interest in the Canal Zone, which Teddy Roosevelt leased from Panama in 1903. The only living member of the Isthmian Canal Commission responsible for digging the waterway, Thatcher served five terms as a U.S. Congressman from Kentucky, had a powerful voice in canal legislation. Thatcher Highway and Thatcher Ferry in the zone bear his name, and last week Thatcher was pleased by a third honor: he arranged to have a new bridge named Thatcher Ferry Bridge...