Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and MeansPublisher:
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Category : Government securities
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
Bonds for Building Panama Canal
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and MeansPublisher:
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Category : Government securities
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
Bonds for Building Panama Canal. January 31, 1911. -- Referred to the House Calendar and Ordered to be Printed
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and MeansPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
Bonds for Building Panama Canal
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and MeansPublisher:
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Category : Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Document discusses ways of paying the cost of the Panama Canal construction.
Panama Canal and the Pacific Coast
Author: George M. SheperdPublisher:
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Category : Pacific Coast
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Building the Panama Canal
Author: Russell RobertsPublisher: Mitchell Lane
ISBN: 1545749248
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
The building of the Panama Canal was one of the great engineering feats of the twentieth century. For hundreds of years, mankind had dreamed about cutting through the Isthmus of Panama to build a canal, but the jungle, insects, and the damp, humid conditions had always combined to defeat any and all attempts to construct the waterway. It took the discovery of the mosquito as a disease carrier, the tenacity of the workmen, and the single-minded stubbornness of Theodore Roosevelt to make the canal dream a reality. But if the canal made some men great, it also destroyed the lives of others. That was the sad fate of Count Ferdinand de Lesseps of France, a national hero who had done the impossible by building the Suez Canal, then failed in Panama. The fate of de Lesseps is as much the story of the Panama Canal as is the success of Roosevelt.
... Panama-Pacific Section ...
Author: The Commercial & Financial Chronicle
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Category : Pacific Coast (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Redemption of 2 Percent Bonds of the Panama Canal Loan
Author: Panama Canal Company Miscellanea
Author: Panama Canal CompanyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A company bond certificate issued in 1888 to raise capital for the construction of the Panama Canal.
Hell's Gorge
Author: Matthew ParkerPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0099484331
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
2014 is the 100-year-anniversary of the panama canal: one of the most extraordinary engineering feats in world history. Hell's Gorge traces a heroic dream that spanned four centuries: to build a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.The human cost was immense: in appalling working conditions and amid epidemics of fever, tens of thousands perished fighting the jungle, swamps and mountains of Panama, a scale of attrition comparable to many great battles. Matthew Parker explores the fierce geo-political struggle behind the heroic vision of the canal, and the immense engineering and medical battles that were fought. But he also weaves in the stories of the ordinary men and women who worked on the canal, to evoke everyday life on the construction and depict the battle on the ground deep in 'Hell's Gorge'. Using diaries, memoirs, contemporary newspapers and previously unseen private letters, he draws a vivid picture of the heart-breaking struggle on the Isthmus, in particular that of the British West Indians who made up the majority of the canal workforce. Hell's Gorge is a tale of politics, finance, press manipulation, scandal and intrigue, populated by a dazzling cast of idealists and bullies, heroes and conmen. But it is also a moving tribute to the 'Forgotten Silvermen', so many of whom died to fulfil the centuries-old canal dream.