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Foss and Mayor Urge Inland Port Development for New England
Gov Foss of Massachusetts and Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston pressed immediate federal funding for deeper waterways at the Atlantic Deeper Waterways convention. They urged developing the Connecticut and Merrimac rivers, dredging to extend to Holyoke and Manchester, and constructing a Boston public terminal to boost regional trade and lower transport costs.
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