Word: culebra
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...superintendent of the Culebra Cut of the Panama Canal, blasting and steamshoveling his way through mountains. To look old enough for the job he grew a beard. When he straightened out several miles of the Northern Pacific R.R. in Montana he risked the loss of $100,000 in equipment by discarding the slow mule-pack transportation and using cows through the swift currents of the Yellow stone River. In 1915 he decided China needed railroads, so he went there, got the concessions, built the roads. During the War he bored a hole through the mountains of Washington to reach...
...Third Engineers are proud of their comrade." So reads a bronze tablet to be affixed to Gold Hill, which looms beside the longest dry cut in the Panama Canal. This cut, nine miles in length, was called Culebra (meaning "snake") until...
...Belisario Porras, onetime (1918-20; 1924) president of Panama, last week announced he would cause a statue of Theodore Roosevelt by Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt (Mrs. Harry Payne) Whitney, to be erected at Culebra Cut, on the Panama Canal. It was easy to foresee that U. S. poets might seize this news as a theme with a classic precedent. The classic precedent, however, contains an error. The traveler who first stood "silent upon a peak in Darien" was not "stout Cortez" (Hernando Cortez) as sung by Poet John Keats. It was Vasco Nunez De Balboa. Poets celebrating the proposed Roosevelt statue...
...DeLesseps collected delegates and money, and formed a company to cut a canal through Panama. Attempting a sea level canal, work proceeded for seven years, could not cope with the Culebra Cut and Chagres River. The management was characterized by "corruption rarely equaled in the history of the world." In 1887 plans were changed; work started on a canal with locks. In 1889 the company went bankrupt...
...Formerly called Culebra...