Panama Canal: What it Is, what it Means ...Pan American union, 1913 - 114 páginas |
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... Suez Canal . Cristobal , its zone neighbor , could be regarded as a model town in any state or country , and is excellent evidence of wise American direction and administration . The only towns or settlements deserving of a special ...
... Suez Canal . Cristobal , its zone neighbor , could be regarded as a model town in any state or country , and is excellent evidence of wise American direction and administration . The only towns or settlements deserving of a special ...
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... through the canal the first year , or a daily average of seven . The total net tonnage of the Suez Canal in 1911 was 18,000,000 . STEAM SHOVEL AT WORK GATUN TRIPLE LOCKS , SHOWING ENTRANCE FROM ATLANTIC SIDE Cofferdam. 49.
... through the canal the first year , or a daily average of seven . The total net tonnage of the Suez Canal in 1911 was 18,000,000 . STEAM SHOVEL AT WORK GATUN TRIPLE LOCKS , SHOWING ENTRANCE FROM ATLANTIC SIDE Cofferdam. 49.
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... Suez Canal , the building of the transcontinental railways of North America , the construction of the great wall of China , has had any such effect on the power , prestige , commerce , and opportunity of one or of a group of nations as ...
... Suez Canal , the building of the transcontinental railways of North America , the construction of the great wall of China , has had any such effect on the power , prestige , commerce , and opportunity of one or of a group of nations as ...
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... Suez Canal AFRICA Panama Canal SOUTH Callao AMERICA Valparaiso Strait of Magellan THE PANAMA CUT OFF COMPARATIVE DISTANCES Το San Francisco The Orient Melbourne Callao Valparaiso From New York via Magellan via Panama Difference 13,135 ...
... Suez Canal AFRICA Panama Canal SOUTH Callao AMERICA Valparaiso Strait of Magellan THE PANAMA CUT OFF COMPARATIVE DISTANCES Το San Francisco The Orient Melbourne Callao Valparaiso From New York via Magellan via Panama Difference 13,135 ...
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... Suez Canal route , but there is practically no choice in actual distance between the Panama and Suez routes in the steaming distance from New York to Hong Kong , China , and Manila , the capital of the Philippines . The South American ...
... Suez Canal route , but there is practically no choice in actual distance between the Panama and Suez routes in the steaming distance from New York to Hong Kong , China , and Manila , the capital of the Philippines . The South American ...
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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.