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Panama Canal Near Completion For First Ship Readiness
The Panama Canal is nearly finished under U S Army engineers Colonel George Washington Goethals and Colonel W C Gorgas. The project costs run well under 375 million dollars while surpassing earlier expectations. The piece traces centuries of effort from Balboa to de Lesseps and notes the canal’s strategic global impact and the extensive construction work along the locks, channels, and masonry.
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Panama Canal
George Washington Goethals
W. C. Gorgas
Canal
France
de Lesseps
United States
Colombia
James G. Blaine
Garfield
Panama
New
Papama Canal Company
John Findley Wallace
Canal Organization
Roosevelt
Theodore Perry Shonts
Canal Commission
John F. Stevens
Colonel Goethals
Goethals