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The Panama Canal

by Frederic J. Haskin

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  1. 1Note
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Acknowledgments
  4. 4The Panama Canal
  5. 5Chapter II — Greatest Engineering Project
  6. 6Chapter III — Gatun Dam
  7. 7Chapter IV — The Locks
  8. 8Chapter V — The Lock Machinery
  9. 9Chapter VI — Culebra Cut
  10. 10Chapter VII — Ends of the Canal
  11. 11Chapter VIII — The Panama Railroad
  12. 12Chapter IX — Sanitation
  13. 13Chapter X — The Man at the Helm
  14. 14Chapter XI — The Organization
  15. 15Chapter XII — The American Workers
  16. 16Chapter XIII — The Negro Workers
  17. 17Chapter XIV — The Commissary
  18. 18Chapter XV — Life on the Zone
  19. 19Chapter XVI — Past Isthmian Projects
  20. 20Chapter XVII — The French Failure
  21. 21Chapter XVIII — Choosing the Panama Route
  22. 22Chapter XIX — Controversy With Colombia
  23. 23Chapter XX — Relations With Panama
  24. 24Chapter XXI — The Canal Zone Government
  25. 25Chapter XXII — Congress and the Canal
  26. 26Chapter XXIII — Sea-Level Canal Impossible
  27. 27Chapter XXIV — Fortifications
  28. 28Chapter XXV — Fixing the Tolls
  29. 29Chapter XXVI — The Operating Force
  30. 30Chapter XXVII — Handling the Traffic
  31. 31Chapter XXVIII — The Republic of Panama
  32. 32Chapter XXIX — Other Great Canals
  33. 33Chapter XXX — A New Commercial Map
  34. 34Chapter XXXI — American Trade Opportunities
  35. 35Chapter XXXII — The Panama-Pacific Exposition

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