Word: waterways
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Between ice in and ice out, Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway Authority turned its efforts to remedying a problem that marred the waterway's inaugural season last year. Big seagoing vessels had such high wind-catching bows and their crews were so inexperienced in the narrow locks and channels that there were 76 accidents along the 27½ mile Welland Canal between Lakes Ontario and Erie. The authority spent $7,500,000 on new mooring walls and fender booms for the Welland, ordered all ships to carry special landing booms, stern anchors and winches. The equipment is sure...
Asparagus Upstream. As a key U.S. waterway, the Ohio thrived; the distinctive old steamboat whistles gave way to the diesel-powered towboats' raucous horns, and each year the towboats nursed some 80 million tons of cargo up through the 46 locks. But as a thing of beauty, the Ohio ran downhill; the sprawling, river-fed cities fed back a byproduct of civilization-raw sewage and industrial wastes -until the great stream became an open sewer. Game fish bellied up and died; riverfront Manhattan Beach, near Bellevue, Ky., was covered with a foul slime; Louisville's water system doused...
...Canal handled a record volume of traffic in 1959 without incident. The canal has become the United Arab Republic's most profitable operation, earning more than $100 million last year. Last week, obviously impressed by President Nasser's plans for increasing the international usefulness of the great waterway, the World Bank lent $56.5 million (at 6% interest) to his Suez Canal Authority for widening and deepening the canal to permit passage of 46,000-ton supertankers...