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Show shead V-.' j Seaway Affects Industries 'JAHERE is far more than just the construction of dams, canals and locks W '"consideration of the St. Lawrence seaway. Whichever way the senate votes on the seaway and the estimated ("-"diture with Canada of some 720 million dollars, by far the most vital inH t consideration 's what will happen to two of the nation's largest affected6'' Damely railroads and steel. The coal industry also will be 1 Engineers and geologists declare that within any time from' ; 5 to 30 years the great steel industry situated in the Middlewest from Pittsburgh to Gary, Ind., will use up its Iron ore sources in northern Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin. gradM688 Sme means can be found for processing a great supply of low-(a low-(a 'acnite ore, now a complicated, expensive process, two alternatives the steel industry: (1) To ship iron ore in from Labrador and South move'th haUl U by raU frorn the coast t0 e Midwest P'ants- or 2) he plants to the eastern, southern or western seaboards. ' electri 'S a by-Product f some 2,200,000 horsepower of cheap coneiH which would be generated if the seaway is constructed. So ' COnsi,1ation steps on many toes. i' . . J L -i |