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The article reports on the construction of a string of causeways, bridges, and tunnels linking two of the dead ends of Atlantic Coast highway system across the mouth of Chesapeake Bay between Maryland and Virginia. It notes that the project will close a gap in the Ocean Highway. It is expected that revenue bonds of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge & Tunnel Commission will be paid off by tolls.

This article features Robert M. Sherritt, a New York financier that specializes in buying and selling bridges. He buys private bridges and convert to public ownership. He is focused at the moment to finding a public buyer for the Ambassador Bridge that connects Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario and the Detroit Windsor tunnel. He explains that benefits of converting private bridges or tunnels to public ownership.

The article discusses how the opening of the International Peace Bridge in 1927 connecting the U.S. and Canada demonstrates how modern business is eliminating war from human life. According to the author, the International Peace Bridge was built by businessmen for business purposes but it ended up serving not only the American and Canadian peoples but also solidified the ties of peace between the U.S. and England.

Presents information on the current socio-political conditions prevailing in the U.S. Prediction related to the next election; Report on a national referendum; Discussion on the effect of the propaganda of the Liberty League, the Economy League and similar groups; Effort to keep up with the series of profound shifts in the government policy; Struggle between the railroads and transportation by highway; Construction of the two new bridges that San Francisco is building.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Statement in defense of Pharmaceutical industry; Suggestions on the location of the proposes proposed connecting highway between the Shenandoah and the Great Smoky Mountains National Parks; Views on renaming San Francisco Bay Bridge.

It was told to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Yugoslav Parliament which had been summoned with dramatic suddenness that the war of nerves against Yugoslavia had started up again in all earnestness. Russian tanks were rumbling through the streets of Sofia; Bulgarian troops on parade were carrying menacing anti-Yugoslav banners. In Rumania not far from the Yugoslav border Russian troops were laying pontoon bridges across the Danube and building new airfields. Although the Yugoslav leaders consider an invasion unlikely, they think Russia might attack if all other attempts to overthrow the Marshal Tit regime failed.

The article focuses on the rising prices of outstanding turnpike bond issues in the U.S. as of August 15, 1959. Because of the change that have taken place in turnpike and toll road revenues, underwriters are now confident that the 210-million dollar financing of an 18-mile bridge and tunnel in Virginia will be marketed. Information on the previous decline in turnpike issues that have been experienced by investors is presented.

The article presents information on the construction of the Mackinac Bridge located at Michigan to connect the mineral rich Upper Peninsula to the rest of the state. The bridge replaced the 34 year old ferry system where the engineering and financing setbacks delayed actual construction. It reports on the issue of withstanding fierce currents and self-liquidating aspect. However Michigan Highway Commissioner John C. Mackie announced the plans of building superhighways from Ohio and Indiana lines.

The article presents socio-political news, related to the United States. The Legislative Appropriation Bill, as passed by the U.S. Senate, was, in spite of sundry objectionable amendments, accepted by the House on Friday, and has gone to U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes for his action upon it. On the same day the Senate by 34 to 12 passed the measure popularly known as the Yellow Fever Bill, but strictly to be designated as " a bill to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States," which was the occasion of a very interesting debate. The report of the Assembly committee on the Brooklyn Bridge is a, rather inconclusive document. They report that the bridge when finished will obstruct vessels with masts more than one hundred and thirty feet in height; or, in other words, that many sailing vessels will have to lower their topmasts in order to pass it.

The article reports on the efforts of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board to establish the cause of the December 1967 collapse of the Point Pleasant Bridge into the Ohio River. The collapse that claimed 43 lives is reported to have spurred a nationwide drive for tighter inspection of bridges and stiffer federal safety standards. Negligence suits amounting to 10 million U.S. dollars have been brought against U.S. Steel's American Bridge Division, the builders. Preliminary findings have shown that a broken eyebar was probably the prime cause.

The article profiles Robert Moses, a New York City official. It says that the political power of Moses lasted for six governors of the city. He is said to be influential in the city improvement, with housing projects and bridges as some of his initiatives. Six great expressways were began to rammed by Moses through the massed apartment houses of the city simultaneously.

The article presents the life and works of James Buchanan Eads. The Eads Bridge, a combined road and railway bridge over the Mississippi River was designed and built by Eads which became one of the amazing American success stories at St. Louis, Missouri. Eads is the only engineer to be enshrined in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York University, and was voted as one of the five greatest engineers by the deans of America's engineering colleges.

Focuses on the Rainbow Bridge in southern Utah. Routes leading to the Rainbow Bridge; Efforts of the U.S. National Park Service to protect the bridge; Historical background of the bridge.

Presents pictorial information on cane bridges found in Asian countries, during the 1940s. Method used in making the cane bridge in Tibet; Use of cane cables in the suspension bridges of North Burma; Benefits of cane bridges found in Assam, India.

The article presents information on the features of the Golden Gate Bridge located in San Francisco, California. The huge bridge is made up of rubber, concrete and steel. It has a peculiarity that it expands on a hot day and contracts when the temperature goes down. Very huge hinges are attached to the side spans of the bridge to cope up with the effect of the sun. These hinges also protects the bridge from strong winds that might adversely affect it.

The article focuses on the features of the Golden Gate Bridge, which is situated in San Francisco, California. The bridge is made up of rubber, concrete, and steel. This peculiar bridge expands on a hot day and contracts when the temperature goes down. Very huge hinges are attached to the side spans of the bridge to cope up with the effect of the sun. These hinges also protect the bridge from strong winds that might adversely affect it.

Focuses on author's journey to Stilwell Road located in India and Burma and that leads to China. Features of the Road; Origin of the Road; Animals used in building the Road; Number of bridges located on the Road.

Focuses on bridges. Origin of bridges; Myths and superstitions regarding bridges; Features of bridges built during 1936; Problems faced by the New Orleans Bridge built across the Mississippi in December 1935.

The article discusses the author's experience of participating in a military mission to attack Japanese forces in China during World War II. He served as a paratrooper for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services. The team of paratroopers had several duties at the time, including the organization, training and arming of guerilla bands to destroy Japanese communications. The paratroopers invented code names to prevent Japanese from understanding their conversations. Their main target is the Yellow River bridge.

Presents information on the construction of the Rye-Oyster Bay bridge, a six-mile bridge between Rye and Oyster bay. Fact that the Rye-Oyster Bay bridge was proposed by the New York State Department of Transportation and Metropolitan Transportation Authority and is supported by the construction industry; Report that the purpose of the bridge is to provide greater access between Long Island, New England and northern New York, and to relieve congestion on existing routes; Fact that the 33 million cars and trucks expected to use the bridge each year will cause a major increase in noise level and air pollution concentration which in the immediate area will violate federal minimum standards; Deliberations on environmental issues that needs to be taken care of before going ahead with the construction.

Focuses on Grand Coulee Dam that checks the swift onrush of the Columbia River. Production of the largest chunk of hydro-electric power available at any one place in the world; Reclamation of a huge tract of land as big as the state of Connecticut; Report that the largest pumping plant in the world will force water from the Columbia River into the Grand Coulee irrigation system; Erection of the biggest steel bridges in the U.S. for construction use; View Grand Coulee as the greatest irrigation, flood-control and power project ever planned; Construction of huge barrier under the supervision of the Bureau of Reclamation by a number of private contracting companies.

The article focuses on the book "A History of the St. Louis Bridge," by C.M. Woodward. After the lapse of more than seven years since the completion of the great bridge across the Mississippi River at St. Louis, an historical description of its construction is given to the public by Woodward who, though not associated with the building of the bridge, was an eye-witness of all the principal operations. The first proposition for the erection of a bridge across the Mississippi River at St. Louis came from Charles Ellet, in 1839. He proposed then to cross the river with a suspension-bridge having a central span of 1,200 feet, and two side spans of 900 feet each.

The article explores the opportunities and problems confronting New York's Orange & Rockland Utilities (O&R) when the Hudson River bridge opened. The bridge's completion allegedly led to a spurt in home, industrial, and commercial building in the area. For all the surge in revenues, however, O&R took in just 44.5 million dollars in 1965. The utility's peak electric load was just 255,300 kilowatts, but it could not even handle that.

The article reports on the decision of a jury in Hawaii that Jack Hall, director of Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) and six other defendants are guilty of a Communist plot to overthrow the U.S. government. The members of the ILWU protested the decision by not reporting to work. The trial lasted for six years, while the jury required 16 hours to come to a decision.