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...Canal completed at a cost of $388,000,000, a national defense argument persisted that the U. S. required two canals to link its Atlantic and Pacific coasts. In 1916 the U. S. purchased for $3,000,000 a 99-year option to build a canal across Nicaragua, from Greytown through Lake Nicaragua to Brito, a distance of 177 mi. In 1929 after traffic through the Panama canal had increased at a rate to indicate serious congestion by 1955, President Hoover appointed a special board to; study the feasibility and cost of the Nicaraguan route. A corps of some...
...work that has already been done on both canals and showed the engineering problems that beset their construction. Captain Fuller also described the scenery of the country and the character and life of its inhabitants, He dwelt particularly on the towns along the routes of canals, Colon, Panama and Greytown...
...unite the Atlantic and Pacific. Commencing with the story of the discover of the Pacific by Balboa, Mr. Fuller will lead up to a description of the seven proposed canal routes at Darien. He will describe the present condition of the Panama canal, the Eads Railroad, the Nicaragua Route, Greytown, San Juan River, and Lake Nicaragua. Through the courtesy of Admiral Walker, President of the Isthmian Canal Commission. Mr. Fuller has secured very recent views of the work already accomplished on both the Nicaragua and Panama routes...
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