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...watched as the Stars and Stripes was lowered-for the last time-at the U.S.-operated headquarters of the Panama Canal Co. Next morning an animated group of Panamanians cheered as their country's white, red and blue banner was run up a new flagpole atop bush-covered Ancon Hill. The Panama Canal Zone, the 648-sq.-mi. enclave that had been under U.S. sovereignty since 1903, had ceased to exist. Its absorption by Panama was the first step in a process that will give that country control of the Big Ditch by the year...
...perfectly. Thanks largely to the efforts of Major General George W. Goethals and his predecessor as chief engineer, John Stevens, the canal was not only completed on time, in 1914, but for $23 million less than had been estimated by the U.S. in 1907. By the time the steamship Ancon sailed through the canal in the official grand opening on Aug. 15,1914, World War I had just erupted and the celebrations were subdued. Even so, the canal was?and is?one of mankind's most memorable achievements, the moon shot...
...WILL ARMSTRONG The Methodist Church Ancon, Canal Zone...
Episcopal Archdeacon of Colombia Ancon, Canal Zone...
...Ancon, Canal Zone...