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ALONG the steel-blue St. Laurence River, seaward outlet of the world's busiest inland waterway, a century-old dream is coming true. A work force of 15,000 men, with the most modern construction machines, is gathering on the U.S. and Canadian banks of the river to build the long-heralded St. Lawrence Seaway and power development. When it is finished in 1959, some 13 billion kilowatt hours of low-cost electricity, three times the output of Hoover Dam, will be generated annually by the river's waters for U.S. and Canadian industry. The river...
...LEASES to federal land, on the seaward side of the submerged lands awarded the states by Congress last year, are finally being sold to private oil companies. The Government has leased 97 tracts (total: about 300,000 acres) ten miles or more off the Louisiana coast to 25 private operators for $130 million. Highest bid: $6,100,-000 by San Antonio's Forest Oil Co. for a promising 5,000-acre tract near Timbalier Island...
Ever since Kon-Tiki, the publishing tide has run strongly seaward. And so, apparently, have readers' tastes, with such books as The Came Mutiny, The Sea Around Us and The Cruel Sea, following each other as successive bestsellers. Yet few present-day writers seem interested in following the old Conrad tradition which dealt with the "glorious and obscure toil" of seamen. Of those who do, France's Roger Vercel, author of Salvage, Troubled Waters and a 1938 Book-of-the-Month Club choice, Tides of Mont St.-Michel, is perhaps the best. In his latest novel. Ride...
...year-old dispute about U.S. "tidelands" moved another slow step toward decision. Last week the House of Representatives passed (285-108) a bill to give coastal states title to the submerged land which lies from the low water mark seaward to the states' historic boundaries (10½ miles in the case of Texas and the gulf coast of Florida, three miles for all other states). The Senate is expected to pass a tidelands bill differing in detail from that of the House...
...Texas Neverland of poor millionaires, a faded parchment heads the list of valuables. This is the Lone Star Resolution of 1838 which claims that the Texas coastline and three leagues seaward belong to the state. Since this area includes the oil-rich tidelands property, the resolution could eventually cost the Treasury $250 billion dollars...