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...splendid wing design, P. A. A. last autumn gave Boeing a contract for six gigantic Clippers, each to have two decks, carry 60 passengers, weigh 41 tons, speed at 200 m.p.h. These vast flying boats are now well along at Boeing's plant on the Duwamish Waterway, Seattle, the biggest seaplanes under construction in the U. S. Last week Boeing won an even juicier contract - to build the biggest land transports...
...Dixie went on a reef in a tropical hurricane last September, he announced that he was starting work on a ship canal across Florida. This debatable enterprise would cost $146,000,000 plus, might make a semidesert of that part of Florida lying south of the waterway (TIME, Feb. 17). As a means of putting men to work, the President turned $5,000,000 over to the Army Engineers, told them to get going...
...Rivers & Harbors Engineers, which always passes on such projects, had refused its approval. Secretary Ickes' Public Works Engineers had also turned it down. Steamship operators did not want it. Much expert geological opinion held it would endanger Florida's water supply. It was the only great waterway job ever undertaken without the specific consent of Congress. Declared Senator Vandenberg: "There is not a scintilla of economic justification for going on with...
...Following an" encouraging message on the advantages of a Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway sent to a conference of Sea way boosters in Detroit, the President announced that if he was in the White House next year at this time, he hoped to send a new St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty to the U. S. Senate and try again for ratification...
...lower half of that State an arid waste, was back in the Washington news when it was discovered that President Roosevelt is apparently determined to push this project despite the House's refusal to appropriate money for it (TIME, Feb. 17). The President started this Atlantic-to-Gulf waterway with five million relief dollars, allotted $200,000 more when that ran out. Last month the House declined to appropriate $12,000,000 to keep the work going, on the legitimate ground that Congress had never authorized this canal's construction. Last week Representatives were greatly surprised to find...