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the panama canal panama (1959 words) |
 | The canal was completed in ten years at a cost of $352 million, four times the price of Suez, with 5,609 lives lost to disease and accidents. |
| The canal and the military bases, it was agreed, would be handed over to Panama over a period of more than 20 years, culminating with the transfer of the waterway at noon on December 31, 1999. |
| Canal traffic is expected to double in the next 50 years, and cargo tonnage is predicted to quadruple in that time. |
| "The Panama Canal : A Brief History", paper by Tyler Jones (3387 words) |
| Roosevelt visited the zone for the first time, and diseases that ran rampant through the canal zone began to be distinctly reduced in occurrence. |
| The width of the canal was increased to 300 feet (from 200 feet), and the size of the locks to be used was increased by 15 feet (95 to 110 feet). |
| The canal had to be dug out of the largest mountain in the path, which was one of the smallest mountain on the isthmus. |
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