Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Panama Canal Zone, Proposed Legislation
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Panama Canal: An Army's Enterprise
Author: Jon T. HoffmanPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160867279
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
This pamphlet describes the critical role of Army officers who defied the odds and saw this immense project through to completion. They included Col. William C. Gorgas, who supervised the medical effort that saved countless lives and made it possible for the labor force to do its job; Col. George W. Goethals, who oversaw the final design of the canal and its construction and, equally important, motivated his workers to complete the herculean task ahead of schedule; and many other officers who headed up the project’s subordinate construction commands and rebuilt the Panama railroad, a key component of the venture. In just seven years, these soldiers, thousands of fellow Americans, and tens of thousands of workers from around the world turned the dream of an isthmian canal into reality. Their success immediately ranked among the greatest peacetime feats of the Army and the nation, and it remains so to this day.
Canal Zone Code
Author: Canal ZoneThe Canal Builders
Author: Julie GreenePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101011556
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
A revelatory look at a momentous undertaking-from the workers' point of view The Panama Canal has long been celebrated as a triumph of American engineering and ingenuity. In The Canal Builders, Julie Greene reveals that this emphasis has obscured a far more remarkable element of the historic enterprise: the tens of thousands of workingmen and workingwomen who traveled from all around the world to build it. Greene looks past the mythology surrounding the canal to expose the difficult working conditions and discriminatory policies involved in its construction. Drawing extensively on letters, memoirs, and government documents, the book chronicles both the struggles and the triumphs of the workers and their families. Prodigiously researched and vividly told, The Canal Builders explores the human dimensions of one of the world's greatest labor mobilizations, and reveals how it launched America's twentieth-century empire.
Canal Zone Code
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Silver People
Author: Margarita EnglePublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544109414
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
As the Panama Canal turns one hundred, Newbery Honor winner Margarita Engle tells the story of its creation in this powerful new YA historical novel in verse.
Maintenance and Operation of the Panama Canal
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canal Zone
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Considers legislation to establish the Panama Canal Co. and Canal Zone Government to oversee Panama Canal.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
Report
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1738
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2308
Book Description