Panama Canal: What it Is, what it Means ...Pan American union, 1913 - 114 páginas |
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... effect . It should be likewise valuable for general reference . It has been compiled under the supervision of the Director General of the Pan American Union , who was United States Minister to Panama at the beginning of the work on the ...
... effect . It should be likewise valuable for general reference . It has been compiled under the supervision of the Director General of the Pan American Union , who was United States Minister to Panama at the beginning of the work on the ...
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... effect was instant and almost magical . The sick and hospital list grew rapidly less and some regiments even so enthused over it that they fined every man a peso who made any reference to the heat , and then used the proceeds to buy ...
... effect was instant and almost magical . The sick and hospital list grew rapidly less and some regiments even so enthused over it that they fined every man a peso who made any reference to the heat , and then used the proceeds to buy ...
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... effect , which enables people to soon get about and work to go on . These rains are also most welcome in the hottest months of April , May , and June , and often bring a desired coolness , sometimes , however , called mugginess . This ...
... effect , which enables people to soon get about and work to go on . These rains are also most welcome in the hottest months of April , May , and June , and often bring a desired coolness , sometimes , however , called mugginess . This ...
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... , mother , or daughter . The whole atmosphere and effect are those of business WATER POWER AWAITING DEVELOPMENT AT CHORRERA , PANAMA but not. STREET SCENE , PANAMA CITY NEW NATIONAL PALACE OR PANAMA GOVERNMENT BUILDING , PANAMA CITY. 35.
... , mother , or daughter . The whole atmosphere and effect are those of business WATER POWER AWAITING DEVELOPMENT AT CHORRERA , PANAMA but not. STREET SCENE , PANAMA CITY NEW NATIONAL PALACE OR PANAMA GOVERNMENT BUILDING , PANAMA CITY. 35.
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... effect , at the same time , of whetting the mental appetite for more facts . What follows before taking up the more extended details is based on the admirable official handbook of the Isthman Canal Commission , which is compiled by the ...
... effect , at the same time , of whetting the mental appetite for more facts . What follows before taking up the more extended details is based on the admirable official handbook of the Isthman Canal Commission , which is compiled by the ...
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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.