Word: transisthmian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final building in 1848 of the transisthmian railway, used by thousands of U. S. citizens on their way to California's gold rush in '49. (For every mile of railroad built 125 men died of disease...
...July 25, 1939, when the U. S. ratified a new treaty which gave the Republic of Panama: 1) control of its own resources (no longer can the U. S. obtain land outside the Canal Zone for "maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection" of the Canal merely by asking); 2) a transisthmian highway, hitherto blocked by Panama Railroad's monopoly; 3) $430,000 instead of $250,000 Canal Zone rent per annum (retroactive to 1934) to compensate for devaluation of the U. S. dollar...
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