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...taxes, directly as agreement." a As one result of this gentleman to "gentlemen's another, President Hoover and Prime Minister Bennett may well mention liquor, must discuss the possibility of a U. S. embargo on Canadian wheat, will probably announce that they are talking about "the St. Lawrence waterway project." Indeed that stale red herring was vigorously bran dished in Government House at Ottawa to account for the Bennett visit. In Ottawa's Liberal Evening Citizen last week appeared this reference to Conservative Bennett : "A fine fleet of government motor cars - all luxurious limousines of high power...
...been generously given in construction. . . . The volume of this type of construction work, which amounted to roughly $6,300,000,000 in 1929, instead of decreasing will show a total of about $7,000,000,000 for 1930. . . . The Federal Government is engaged upon the greatest program of waterway, harbor, flood control, public building, highway, and airway improvement in all our history. This, together with loans to merchant shipbuilders, improvement of the Navy and in military aviation, and other construction work . . . will exceed $520,000,000 for this fiscal year. This compares with $253,000,000 in the fiscal year...
From England, France, Hawaii, the Philippines and many a U. S. waterway, little sailboats came by freight to Chesapeake Bay, were refitted and tuned up. Last week they raced for the big silver cup the Johnson brothers, Graham and Lowndes, of Easton, Md., won last year in New Orleans with Eel. The boats were Stars?the most popular class of racing sloops in the world, 22 ft. 7½ in. long, Marconi rigged. Sometimes they went windward and leeward off Gibson Island Clubhouse, to a buoy and back, and sometimes around a little triangular course in which they turned eight buoys...
Secretary of War Hurley, No. 3, got a special White House dispensation to make a survey of the upper Mississippi Valley in connection with waterway development. His vacation will probably come later in the month...
...Dredging and maintaining a 24-ft. channel in the Great Lakes, a 27-ft. channel in the St. Lawrence River from Ogdensburg, N. Y., to Lake Ontario?first step in the proposed Lakes-to-Atlantic big-ship waterway...