Word: pontchartrain
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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Over these institutions of recent years has spread a boom spirit. This was given impetus by the completion shortly after the War of the War-built industrial canal, between the Mississippi and Lake Pontchartrain. Ocean-going vessels could come up the lake instead of up the 100-odd miles of winding river, gaining thereby some 60 miles of traverse. New wharves and new residence districts got under way. But the Industrial Canal, although available to the city remains unused. The city wants the Government to dredge a shipway through Lake Pontchartrain to the Canal. But the Federal authorities...