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Playing ‘Chicken’ on the River

Janet Nodar | Jun 15, 2009 4:00AM GMT
The Journal of Commerce Magazine - News Story
Lower Mississippi River transit threatened after request for dredging help is denied

An unnerving game of “chicken” played out on the lower Mississippi River recently. In early April, Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh, commander of the Mississippi Valley Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, decided not to honor a


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