Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The St. Lawrence Seaway Project
In the preparation of this survey, the basic materials used were the reports of a Joint Board Of Engineers (appointed by the Canadian and United States governments), an Interdepartmental Report Of the United States Government, other governmental documents, and the report published by the Brookings Institution, an impartial research foundation of Washington, D. C. Original analyses as to the costs and as to the economic and political effects of the pro posed seaway were then made from this basic material. Data from such sources were believed to be the most authentic information on the subject.
Of necessity, this study has reached out far beyond the confines Of the Niagara Frontier, because every port along the Great Lakes and the major ports of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the Gulf of Mexico, the railroads.
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