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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...
Canoeing to China. Ever since the Breton sea captain, Jacques Cartier, discovered it in 1535, the St. Lawrence-Great Lakes route has been North America's most important waterway. Cartier thought he had found a new route to China; he and later French explorers pressed on upriver expecting to find Oriental gold and spices. They never reached China, but the voyageurs, fur traders and missionaries who came after them canoed up the river and its tributaries into lands that were to prove far richer than fabled Cathay. The river led them to the Mississippi Valley, the Great Plains...
...becoming a major auto-producing center with new semi-automatic Ford and Chevrolet factories. Along with Chicago, Detroit and other Great Lakes cities, Cleveland in 1954 could look forward to a new commercial life with the passage of the St. Lawrence Seaway Act. In a few years the new waterway would make them world-trading seaports...
...most spectacular moment of a transit of the Panama Canal's great Gaillard Cut is the passage below Contractor's Hill, whose sheer rock face, blasted off to make the waterway, rises above ships' decks for 300 ft. Last week it was learned that some or all of this rock face is in danger of toppling into the canal and blocking it. perhaps for months...
Since 1924, when floods washed out one section of the waterway, no freight at all has moved on the canal, and the placid ditch, its tree-grown canal path, its long strip of riverside woodland, are frequented only by occasional hikers, naturalists or canoeists. Recently the Government began planning construction of a modern, two-lane automobile highway to open the area and its delightful vistas to the general public. But last week, when the Washington Post ran an editorial commending the parkway scheme, it received a sharp and moving dissent. Its author: woods-wise, mountain-loving Supreme Court Justice William...