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This article focuses on St. Lawrence Seaway. Some 2,400 miles west of the Atlantic Ocean, an icy creek ripples over black rock and foams into an inland sea. The creek is one of the headwaters of the mighty St. Lawrence River, pride of the Northeast. Actually, the St. Lawrence Seaway has been in operation for 150 years or so. Nature provided most of the route; Canada and the United States had to put their engineers to work in only a few spots. The toughest, most dogged fighters for an improved seaway are, understandably, from the Middle West and states bordering the Great Lakes.

The article published on October 1, 1969 presents the opinion of the author on various topics including elevator installers strikes demanding wage increase amid U.S. President Richard Nixon's promise to cut back on federal construction, fairness and justice of regulatory agencies in the U.S., and pollution of the Atlantic Ocean reported by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl.

Focuses on the conflict between the armies of Great Britain and Germany around the Atlantic Sea. Report that mass bombing flights are aimed at wrecking the principal British ports and harbors so that cargo vessels can neither be unloaded, built nor repaired; Strategy adopted by German navy; Role played by the U.S. in the conflict; Claims that German ships are operating inside the neutrality zone; Information about the aid provided by the U.S. to Great Britain.

"Our inventions," said U.S. writer Henry David Thoreau of the laying of the Atlantic cable, "are but improved means to unimproved ends." If Thoreau doubted the urgent and ultimate importance of most of the news flashed over the cables, what would he have said of the radio, that latest marvel of science, which can call aid to a ship in distress, guide airplanes in Arctic wastes, or bring Presidential candidates to the homes of the nation--and which has been used mainly for the purpose of broadcasting fifty-seven varieties of twaddle upon the air? There were almost as many radio listeners as readers of the comic strips and the Sunday "funnies."

Comments on the flight of aviators William Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown to the Atlantic Ocean. Determination of the two aviators; Triumph of Alcock and Brown; Prelude appearance of Alcock and Brown.

The article discusses the threats posed by the opening of the Saint Lawrence Seaway, a system of canals that runs from Lake Ontario to the Atlantic Ocean, to the shipping men in the U.S. and Canadian Great Lakes in February 1972. It mentions that shipping men fear that the completion of the canals will attract lower-cost foreign ships. The Seaway is expected to allow deep draft ocean ships up to 27 feet to invade the trades in the area.