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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Box 372

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Contains 4 Results:

Saint Lawrence Seaway Project, 5 folders, 1939-1940

 File — Box: 372, Folder: 1-5
Scope and Contents

Files include: Anderson, Paul E. – Reports and Memoranda; Ballantine's Report [on Transportation by Waterway as Related to Competition with the Rail Carriers in the United States]; Commodity Studies, including livestock, potash, green coffee, grains, and rubber; Correspondence; and Department of Commerce Outline.

Dates: 1939-1940

Saint Lawrence Seaway Project, 6 folders, 1921-1940

 File — Box: 372, Folder: 6-11
Scope and Contents

Files include: Digest of Hearings and Reports; Electric Generation Capacity, U.S.A.; Extent of Railway Operations; News clippings, including article from "The New Republic"; Notes and Outline; and Panama Canal Traffic effect upon Railroad Rates.

Dates: 1921-1940

Saint Lawrence Waterway Project – Power Development, 1940

 File — Box: 372, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

This file includes a Railway Labor Executives’ Policy statement, statement of the Baltimore Association of Commerce, and a paper about the “Effect of the Proposed Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence Deep Waterway on the Coal Industry.”

Dates: 1940

Saint Lawrence Seaway Project – Railroads, 1937-1940

 File — Box: 372, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

The file includes articles by Lester Velie (“Lean Years for the Rails”), Harold D. Kootz (“The Railroad Crisis”), and one about new types of equipment; a speech by Harry S. Truman on railroad financing; a memorandum about railroads serving the Great Lakes ports; and a memorandum to Robertson about the position of Western railroad presidents concerning the waterway prior to 1933-1934.

Dates: 1937-1940