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The contract for building a railroad on the isthmus was signed while Jose Hilario Lopez was president of Nueva Granada and six months before Polk retired from office in Washington . The lucky entrepreneur was an American , William ...
The contract for building a railroad on the isthmus was signed while Jose Hilario Lopez was president of Nueva Granada and six months before Polk retired from office in Washington . The lucky entrepreneur was an American , William ...
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On the short trips from the Atlantic Coast to the end of the line , only a few miles inland , the railroad made 2.5 million gold pesos packing human cargo8 into the flat cars used to carry equipment and dirt .
On the short trips from the Atlantic Coast to the end of the line , only a few miles inland , the railroad made 2.5 million gold pesos packing human cargo8 into the flat cars used to carry equipment and dirt .
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Acquiring the Railroad Meanwhile , the company had to face another urgent problem — the acquisition of the railroad . Many influential people had already begun to claim — by cession or sale — most of the land adjacent to the line and in ...
Acquiring the Railroad Meanwhile , the company had to face another urgent problem — the acquisition of the railroad . Many influential people had already begun to claim — by cession or sale — most of the land adjacent to the line and in ...
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Contents
BunauVarillas Last Campaigns | 299 |
Appendix 1 | 335 |
Appendix 3 | 349 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Philippe Bunau-Varilla, the Man Behind the Panama Canal |
| Author | G. A. Anguizola |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Nelson-Hall, 1980 |
| Original from | University of Texas |
| Digitized | 12 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0882293974, 9780882293974 |
| Length | 472 pages |
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