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...Alberta's M. P. Robert Gardiner regarding the relations of the Government to Beauharnois Power Co., of which Senator McDougald is board-chairman. In 1927 this company obtained permission from the Government to dredge a wide, 15 mi. canal, ostensibly as part of the proposed St. Lawrence Waterway, between Lake St. Francis and Lake St. Louis on the St. Lawrence River, the immediate purpose being to utilize the flow between the lakes for hydroelectric power. Projected cost of the power installations alone: $65,000,000. Projected horsepower on completion: 2,000,000. Initial developments provided...
...trip from St. Louis. When it reached Peoria it pushed the big steel barge it had brought up to the city's new $400.000 wharf and warehouse. Whistles tooted, bands played, citizens cheered to celebrate the opening of one more link in the Government's vast mid-continent waterway system...
General Ashburn's waterway party at Peoria, nevertheless, stood for one of four major reasons why the railroads of the land, after a month of agitation, formally petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission last week for a 15% freight rate increase. The three other reasons are: Depression, motor trucks, pipelines. At their Manhattan meeting fortnight ago (TIME, June 22) the carrier executives named three of their colleagues to approach the I. C. C. Representing the Eastern roads was big, breezy John Jeremiah Pelley, who rose from Illinois school-teaching to head New York, New Haven & Hartford. Henry Alexander Scandrett, whose long...
...years ago Columbia Valley farmers protested to Washington, D. C. (TIME, April 22, 1929). Washington forwarded the protest to the International Joint Commission to which, heretofore, only waterway controversies have been referred. Last week the State Department was happy to announce that the Commission had unanimously recommended: 1) payment by the smelting company of $350,000 to the U. S. to be distributed among the damaged husbandmen, orchardists, stockmen; 2) payment for all possible future damage. It was reported that the smelter is now spending $10,000,000 to abate its deadly fumes. Full of satisfaction, although the Commission...
Mayor Thompson-"Big Bill the Builder"-sought a fourth term in a campaign in which he flayed Prohibition, harped on waterway development, abused the Chicago Tribune and his opponents. His famed "King George" issue was played down. Into the Loop his limping, bulky racoon-coated figure led his parade of bands, elephants, cowboys, burros, mules to block traffic for hours. At his rallies he shook a halter at pop-eyed crowds, loudly denied that he, unlike his rival, was tethered to the Press. When his speeches grew so vicious that local papers refused to carry them, he screamed more insanely...