Panama Canal: What it Is, what it Means ...Pan American union, 1913 - 114 páginas |
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... Caribbean to the Pacific , but the turns of the canal make its channel 50 miles from deep water to deep water . There is one other place between the Bay of San Blas to the east of Colon and the Bay of Panama where the Isthmus narrows to ...
... Caribbean to the Pacific , but the turns of the canal make its channel 50 miles from deep water to deep water . There is one other place between the Bay of San Blas to the east of Colon and the Bay of Panama where the Isthmus narrows to ...
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... Caribbean . The regular boats take about four weeks for the round trip and the excursion steamers from sixteen to twenty - nine days . This year they will run one excursion vessel from New Orleans in January and February . The United ...
... Caribbean . The regular boats take about four weeks for the round trip and the excursion steamers from sixteen to twenty - nine days . This year they will run one excursion vessel from New Orleans in January and February . The United ...
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... Caribbean Sea Mean Sea Level Proposed Bottom Ele . 41 ' Gatun Gatun Locks ( 3 Lifts ) and Dam Ele . 115 ' Lion Hill Proposed Proposed Ahorca Lagarto Peña Blanca Bohio Buena Vista Surface Bottom of of Frijoles Gatun Lake Canal Ele . +40 ...
... Caribbean Sea Mean Sea Level Proposed Bottom Ele . 41 ' Gatun Gatun Locks ( 3 Lifts ) and Dam Ele . 115 ' Lion Hill Proposed Proposed Ahorca Lagarto Peña Blanca Bohio Buena Vista Surface Bottom of of Frijoles Gatun Lake Canal Ele . +40 ...
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... Caribbean Sea and enters the channel of the canal at Colon it will travel just 50 miles before it reaches deep water of the Pacific . The actual air line , however , from shore - line to shore - line is only 40 miles . This vessel , if ...
... Caribbean Sea and enters the channel of the canal at Colon it will travel just 50 miles before it reaches deep water of the Pacific . The actual air line , however , from shore - line to shore - line is only 40 miles . This vessel , if ...
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... Caribbean to deep water of the Pacific . It covers an area of 448 square miles and by treaty with Panama is under the sovereignty and complete control of the United States Government . The administration of this zone and the direction ...
... Caribbean to deep water of the Pacific . It covers an area of 448 square miles and by treaty with Panama is under the sovereignty and complete control of the United States Government . The administration of this zone and the direction ...
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Página 110 - The Canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these Rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions or charges of traffic, or otherwise Such conditions and charges of traffic shall be just and equitable.
Página 110 - April, 1850, commonly called the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, to the construction of such canal under the auspices of the Government of the United States, without impairing the "general principle...
Página 110 - It is agreed that no change of territorial sovereignty or of the international relations of the country or countries traversed by the before-mentioned Canal shall affect the general principle of neutralization or the obligation of the High Contracting Parties under the present Treaty.
Página 117 - not more than five years old at the time they apply for registry' in section five of the Act entitled 'An Act to provide for the opening, maintenance, protection, and operation of the Panama Canal and the sanitation and government of the Canal Zone.
Página 48 - Commission, which, together with the present organization, shall then cease to exist; and the President is authorized thereafter to complete, govern, and operate the Panama Canal and govern the Canal Zone, or cause them to be completed, governed, and operated, through a governor of the Panama Canal and such other persons as he may deem competent to discharge the various duties connected with the completion, care, maintenance, sanitation, operation, government, and protection of the canal and Canal...
Página 48 - SEC. 4. That when in the judgment of the President the construction of the Panama Canal shall be sufficiently advanced toward completion to render the further services of the Isthmian Canal Commission unnecessary...
Página 113 - ... less than the rate of tolls for vessels with passengers or cargo. 3. Upon naval vessels, other than transports, colliers, hospital ships and supply ships, fifty (50) cents per displacement ton.
Página 110 - October, 1888, for the free navigation of the Suez canal, that is to say: 1. The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens...
Página 113 - ... 2. On vessels in ballast without passengers or cargo forty (40) per cent less than the rate of tolls for vessels with passengers or cargo.
Página 113 - August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, to provide for the opening, maintenance, protection and operation of the Panama Canal and the sanitation and government of the Canal Zone, do hereby prescribe and proclaim the following rates of toll to be paid by vessels using the Panama Canal : 1. On merchant vessels carrying passengers or cargo one dollar and twenty cents ($1.20) per net vessel ton — each one hundred (100) cubic feet-^-of actual earning capacity.