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Last week the Provincial Attorney General sorely vexed Ottawa, London and Washington by burbling, "If the United States want to build the St. Lawrence waterway, by all means let us join them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Hate-Free, Fear-Free | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...Faculty committee here are the problems of over-concentration and wasted distribution raised by the Student Council. The results of the Carnegie tests will give the boys something to go on besides theories and generalities. Seniors can help by agreeing to tell the Foundation about the leading inland waterway to the West in 1815, and who discovered the tubercule bacillus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INFORMATION PLEASE | 3/13/1940 | See Source »

Turkish Angle. The big diplomatic finesse which the Soviet Dictator was quietly developing in Moscow last week concerned the question of the Dardanelles. If the Turks should permit a British and French fleet to slip into the Black Sea through this narrow waterway, the Allies could then firmly bolster up Rumania and go far toward bluffing the Balkans into halting their supplies of raw materials now going regularly to Germany, notably Rumanian oil up the Danube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Moscow's Week | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...electric service at the lowest possible cost. . . . The achievement of this end and the solution of the existing problems of competition lie in ... the coordinated use of the existing generatmg and transmission facilities of both " Two months ago the New York Power Authority (planning exploitation of the St Lawrence Waterway, very close to former governor Franklin Roosevelt's heart) made its annual report. In presenting a copy of their report to the President the Trustees noted that it "suggests a new line of approach to ... coordination of Government power enterprises with private power systems. ..." They thought it opportune" that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Pat on the Back | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Many a boat buyer,* if his boat is delivered in time, will cruise to Florida this winter over the Government-promoted inland waterway from New York City to Miami (1,460 nautical miles). Each year some 2,500 boats from New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and surrounding States motor down through the network of rivers, streams and canals (there is still 50 miles of open sea). Like touring autoists, waterway tourists use road maps (Government charts), obey traffic signals (buoys). They treat sailing vessels as autoists treat pedestrians, park at anchorages instead of garages. Diehard water-gypsies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pleasure Boatmen | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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