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id: 48924
author: Pennell, Joseph
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title:
  Joseph Pennell's pictures of the Panama Canal Reproductions of a series of lithographs made by him on the Isthmus of Panama, January—March 1912, together with impressions and notes by the artist

summary:
  The mouth of the Canal is on the left in the flat space between the mountains; on the right of this, the dark mass on the edge of the water is the docks and harbors; then comes the great, towering Ancon Hill, one side all dug out in terraces for dirt, much of which goes to fill in the outside of locks, which, however, will work before they are filled in. But great work is great art, and always was and will be.


id: 29269
author: Hill, H. R.
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title:
  A Succinct View of the Importance and Practicability of Forming a Ship Canal across the Isthmus of Panama

summary:
  The following observations were thrown together as the result of communications with several gentlemen locally acquainted with the Isthmus of Panama, and who expressed to the writer their astonishment, that amidst the numerous undertakings, of more or less utility, which science has realised in our time, one so important to the whole commercial world, so easy of accomplishment, and so certain to be productive of ample remuneration to the undertakers, as a Ship Canal through that Isthmus, had not been taken up. The natural obstacles to be overcome in forming a Canal between Panama, and the _nearest point_ of the opposite coast, which is the Gulph of San Blas (likewise called the Bay of Mandingo), render it expedient to select a position west of that line, and the happy coincidence of two navigable rivers, traversing the low lands to the west of Porto Bello, the one falling into the Atlantic, and the other into the Pacific Ocean, which may either form part of the navigation, or be used to feed the Canal, renders that part of the Isthmus the most eligible for this purpose.


id: 22143
author: Oppenheim, L. (Lassa)
title: The Panama Canal Conflict between Great Britain and the United States of America A Study
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sentence: 241
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  Bearing this point in mind, it must be maintained that the United States, being bound by Article III, No. 1, of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, had not the power to enter into the stipulation of Article XIX of the Hay-Varilla Treaty by which she granted exemption from payment of tolls to vessels of the Republic of Panama, and that Great Britain is justified in protesting against the enactment of Section 5 of the Panama Canal Act in so far as it exempts vessels of Panama from the payment of tolls. --The Panama Canal would then lose its neutral character and would be in danger of eventually being made the theatre of war, p. 18


id: 41987
author: Rogers, Robert W. (Robert Wells)
title: "The United Seas"
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summary:
  Having your feet shod with the gospel of world peace, your judgment made discreet with the gospel of contact and your soul made heroic for service by an invincible faith in a better humanity, such as was possessed by the Son of Man. I say, when the people once glimpse the vision of world peace, world harmony (or democracy) in its full grandeur, a spirit will be aroused that all the warring kings and illegitimate trusts on earth cannot check!


id: 37671
author: Cornish, Vaughan
title: The Panama Canal and Its Makers
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summary:
  Distances B Barbadians as labourers, 104 Bohio, abandoned site of dam, 70 C California, rush of gold-seekers to, 29 Canal, Panama, national and commercial status defined, 39-43 tide-level schemes, 52, 54-55 curvatures of, 60 time of transit through, 64 date of completion, 95-6 Suez, opened 1869, 30 effect on value of Panama route, 30 dimensions and cost, 59, 173 Caribbean Sea, Spain unable to protect her ships in, 27 Chagres, River, course of, 48 sudden rise of, 51 Charles V. of Spain, canal project, 26 Children, white, health of, on Isthmus, 143 Climate of the Isthmus, 140-2 Clubs for employees, 143 Colombia (formerly New Granada), treaty with United States, 1846, 28 Senate of, does not accept offer of United States, 1903, 38 want of sea-power, 39 Colon, protection from northers, 78 yellow fever in, 129 Columbus discovers Bay of Limon, 25 Commission, Isthmian Canal, Report of 1901, 36-37 a second appointed, 113 a third appointed, 114 Congress, appoints Isthmian Canal Commission, 1899, 25 Spooner Act of, 37-58 Congress, Act of, sanctioning 85-foot-level canal, 1906, 53 Constantinople, conquest by Turks, 1453, 25 Contract Construction of Canal, proposed by Second Commission, 114 Cortes searches for a strait, 26 Culebra, view of works from, described, 84-90 Cut, form and dimensions of, 81-84 amount excavated in, 94 Currents in Canal advanced as objection to tide-level scheme, 55 tidal, below Milaflores, 66 D Dam, Bohio, abandoned, 70 Gamboa, controlling feature of tide-level scheme, 54, 57 Gatun, as proposed in minority report of Board of Consulting Engineers, 56-58 plans of, April, 1908, 70-74 Milaflores, 69 Pedro Miguel, 69 De Lesseps, Ferdinand, forms First Panama Canal Company, 1879, 31 plan for tide-level canal, 52 Depew, Senator, on the cost of operating American ships, 168 Dimensions of Panama and other Canals, 59-61 Distances, Shortening of, by Suez Canal, 160 by Panama Canal, 153-165 to Pacific Coast of North America, 155, 156 to Pacific Coast of South America, 155, 156 to Asiatic ports, 158, 159, 161, 162 Australian and New Zealand ports, 158, 161, 162 E Employees, number of, on Canal Zone, 112 Engineers, French, ability of, 32 Board of Consulting, Majority Scheme for tide-level canal, 53-55 Minority Scheme for high-level canal, 56-70 names of chief, 113-115 Corps of, U.S.A., and public works, 115 Excavation, amount of, by French Companies, 94 by American Commission, 94 F Fever, Yellow, 121-132 geographical distribution of, 130-131 Malarial, _see_ What then are we to understand by the term neutral as applied to the Panama Canal in war time?


id: 60740
author: Paine, Ralph Delahaye
title: The Steam-Shovel Man
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flesch: 84
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summary:
  He charged full-tilt along the wharf, and Walter Goodwin meekly followed with the sensation of being yanked at the end of a tow-rope. As fast as an armful was collected, the owner savagely rammed it into the suit-case, and when this young friend in need, Walter Goodwin by name, came running up with the last consignment he growled, after fumbling in his pockets: Not a blessed cent of change left!


id: 10776
author: Appleton, Victor
title: The Moving Picture Boys at Panama; Or, Stirring Adventures Along the Great Canal
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sentence: 2956
flesch: 89
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summary:
  Once more Blake and Joe were taking pictures, showing the chain in position. yelled Blake, preparing to leap toward his chum. Be careful!


id: 33232
author: Duffield, J. W.
title: Bert Wilson at Panama
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flesch: 87
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summary:
  Dear old Bert! By dint of strength and natural capacity Bert was the leader, but the others followed close behind.


id: 42077
author: Goldfrap, John Henry
title: The Boy Scouts at the Panama Canal
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flesch: 88
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summary:
  That's a very good description, Master Rob, said a voice at their elbows. Just above the place where Rob clung to the wall, a hundred feet above the waving banana fronds, was an opening.


id: 34124
author: Mills, J. Saxon (John Saxon)
title: The Panama Canal: A history and description of the enterprise
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summary:
  The Greeks were, it is true, not equal to the Italians or the Spaniards, and very few of them were recruited for canal work. He may be supposed to have known the isthmus at these points very well, and his scepticism about the prospect of canal construction there in those days was not wholly groundless.


id: 4786
author: Franck, Harry Alverson
title: Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers
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  Before and beyond were pounding rock drills, belching locomotives, there arose the rattle and bump of long trains of flat-cars on many tracks, the crash of falling boulders, the snort of the straining steam-shovels heaping the cars high with earth and rock, everywhere were groups of little men, some working leisurely, some scrambling down into the rocky bed of the canal or dodging the clanging trains, all far below and stretching endless in either direction, while over all the scene hovered a veritable Pittsburg of smoke. Some one might run away with the Administration Building on the edge of the Pacific and the telephone wires be buzzing for me--with the sad result that a few days later there would be posted in Zone police stations where all who turned the leaves might read: Special Order No. ....


id: 41807
author: Haskin, Frederic J. (Frederic Jennings)
title: The Panama Canal
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summary:
  Panama canals are not built every year, so it was not a matter of ordering equipment from stock; everything had to be invented and designed for the particular requirement it was necessary to meet. Much that might be written of the romantic history of the Isthmian territory--tales of discoverers and conquistadores, wild tales of pirates and buccaneers, serio-comic narratives of intrigue and revolution--is left out of this book, because, while it is interesting, it now belongs to that antiquity which boasts of many, many books; and this volume is to tell not of Panama, but of the Panama Canal--on the threshold of its story, fitted by a noble birth for a noble destiny.


id: 41767
author: Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)
title: The Hero of Panama: A Tale of the Great Canal
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summary:
  It was pure invention; Jim swung round upon the negro with flashing eyes. Jim swung round in an agony of terror.


