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Dying to better themselves : West Indians and the building of the Panama Canal / Olive Senior

"To shrink the world by half" -- Part. 1. The Panama Railroad -- The Panama Railroad, 1849-1855 -- Part 2. The French canal -- The French canal, 1881-1904 -- Part 3. The US construction of the Panama ...
Zanesville Times Recorder

Lewis LeMaster: Zanesville woman has family ties to the construction of the Panama Canal

Gretchen Sayre, who lives in Zanesville with her husband Kenneth, is proud of her maternal grandfather and has a good reason for doing so. A talented jack-of-all trades, William Taylor, born in Troy, ...
PBS

Reality of Panama Canal control as Trump threatens action

Since returning to office, President Trump has made repeated claims that China operates the Panama Canal and threatened to take it back from the Panama Canal Authority, which has controlled it since ...
Daily Breeze

South Bay History: Panama Canal celebrations at the Port of LA were muted by onset of World War I

The Panama Canal was a mammoth construction project that took a decade to complete and cost about $375 million — the equivalent of $11.8 billion today.
U.S. News & World Report

Panama Canal Starts Process to Select Firms to Build, Operate LPG Pipeline

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - The Panama Canal has begun a competitive process to select the company that will design, build and operate a pipeline to transport liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), its authority ...