Panama Canal: What it Is, what it Means ...Pan American union, 1913 - 114 páginas |
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... rock is being obtained for the Point Toro breakwater , is worth while , because there can be seen some of the finest old fortifications of the days of the Spanish Conquest . Even the old guns and cannon balls in use in those times still ...
... rock is being obtained for the Point Toro breakwater , is worth while , because there can be seen some of the finest old fortifications of the days of the Spanish Conquest . Even the old guns and cannon balls in use in those times still ...
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... rock will have been excavated by the Americans since May 4 , 1904. The French excavated approximately 80,000,000 yards , but only 30,000,000 were utilized by the Ameri- cans . The actual total excavation for the present canal will ...
... rock will have been excavated by the Americans since May 4 , 1904. The French excavated approximately 80,000,000 yards , but only 30,000,000 were utilized by the Ameri- cans . The actual total excavation for the present canal will ...
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... rock will have been excavated . The same amount of excavation would make a tunnel fourteen feet in diameter , 8,000 miles long , through the very heart of the earth , sufficiently large to permit the passing of a New York subway train ...
... rock will have been excavated . The same amount of excavation would make a tunnel fourteen feet in diameter , 8,000 miles long , through the very heart of the earth , sufficiently large to permit the passing of a New York subway train ...
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... rock breakwater at the entrance of the canal will be 11,700 feet , or over two miles in length , 15 feet wide at the top and 10 feet above sea level , and cost $ 5,500,000 . It is an absolute necessity to protect the canal and shipping ...
... rock breakwater at the entrance of the canal will be 11,700 feet , or over two miles in length , 15 feet wide at the top and 10 feet above sea level , and cost $ 5,500,000 . It is an absolute necessity to protect the canal and shipping ...
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... rock fill Dam Water Level GATUN LAKE → 30 -100- 100 . 230 +85 +90 4'to 1 119 Water Level 7.67 Waste Material Solid Fill Hydraulic Fill NOTE : -- The sloping Ends of the Dam are known as " The Toes " Bas Obispo rock 470- 100 / 80 % 60 ...
... rock fill Dam Water Level GATUN LAKE → 30 -100- 100 . 230 +85 +90 4'to 1 119 Water Level 7.67 Waste Material Solid Fill Hydraulic Fill NOTE : -- The sloping Ends of the Dam are known as " The Toes " Bas Obispo rock 470- 100 / 80 % 60 ...
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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.