Annual Report of the Isthmian Canal Commission ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 - Canal Zone |
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... permanent buildings .. Electrical work in new Balboa shops ‒‒‒‒‒ Operation and maintenance of electric cargo - handling cranes___ 89 Miscellaneous___ . * 8888 89 89 90 Division of municipal engineering-- 90 Office engineer ---- 91 ...
... permanent buildings .. Electrical work in new Balboa shops ‒‒‒‒‒ Operation and maintenance of electric cargo - handling cranes___ 89 Miscellaneous___ . * 8888 89 89 90 Division of municipal engineering-- 90 Office engineer ---- 91 ...
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... permanent 173 173 173 be in Balboa shop 174 174 175 3. Do shop build- 176 permanent 177 177 179 180 180 180 187 157 788 150 190 191 201 碍障» Report of chief hydrographer , etc. - Continued . Meteorology TABLE OF CONTENTS .
... permanent 173 173 173 be in Balboa shop 174 174 175 3. Do shop build- 176 permanent 177 177 179 180 180 180 187 157 788 150 190 191 201 碍障» Report of chief hydrographer , etc. - Continued . Meteorology TABLE OF CONTENTS .
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... Permanent shops ------ Steelwork Closures . 165 165 166 166 166 167 167 Roofing ---- 168 Power and lighting distribution_ . 168 Motors 169 Foundations 170 Flooring ---- 171 Installation of mechanical division and shops_ . 171 Shops ...
... Permanent shops ------ Steelwork Closures . 165 165 166 166 166 167 167 Roofing ---- 168 Power and lighting distribution_ . 168 Motors 169 Foundations 170 Flooring ---- 171 Installation of mechanical division and shops_ . 171 Shops ...
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... permanent shop buildings 177 Contracts placed for material for permanent shops __- 177 Old and new equipment installed in Balboa shops ----- Coaling plants , dry docks , floating cranes , and radio stations-- . 179 180 Designs 180 ...
... permanent shop buildings 177 Contracts placed for material for permanent shops __- 177 Old and new equipment installed in Balboa shops ----- Coaling plants , dry docks , floating cranes , and radio stations-- . 179 180 Designs 180 ...
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... permanent building division . Adiuinistration building Pormatient quarters . 300 302 302 302 303 304 305 305 306 307 307 308 309 311 312 313 Report of the chief quartermaster , supply department - Continued * །། TABLE OF CONTENTS .
... permanent building division . Adiuinistration building Pormatient quarters . 300 302 302 302 303 304 305 305 306 307 307 308 309 311 312 313 Report of the chief quartermaster , supply department - Continued * །། TABLE OF CONTENTS .
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amount Ancon April August average Balboa shops breakwater bridge buildings cable caissons Canal Zone cent Chagres River chamber charge coaling plant Coco Solo Colon completed concrete connection construction contract cranes Cristobal cubic yards Cucaracha slide Culebra Cut culvert December division cost dredging Dry Dock dump electrical elevation engineer equipment erection excavation February filling fiscal Gamboa gates Gatun Lake inches installation Isthmus January July June 18 June 30 linear feet lock-control lockage locomotives machines March material mechanical division Miraflores Lake Miraflores Locks months motors Mount Hope November October operation Panama Canal Panama Railroad Paraiso Pedro Miguel Locks piers plate pontoon Porto Bello pump station Quay wall rising-stem sewer side Sosa Hill spillway steel storage substation supply switchboard terminal tion tons Toro Point towing trestle trusses unloading upper lock valves velocity vessels volt ampere watt wharf yards of earth
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Page 551 - States of America in Congress assembled, That an Act entitled "An Act to prohibit the importation and use of opium for other than medicinal purposes," approved February ninth, nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: ******* "SEC. 6. That hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person subject to the jurisdiction of
Page 598 - By virtue of authority vested in me by the Act approved April 6, 1914, entitled "An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen and for prior years, and for other purposes," a committee of six members is hereby created to arrange and provide suitable ceremonies for the
Page 580 - virtue of the authority vested in me, I hereby enact the following order, creating a permanent organization for the Panama Canal, under the Act of Congress "To provide for the opening, maintenance, protection and operation of the Panama Canal and the sanitation and government of the Canal Zone,
Page 287 - when any material, supplies, and equipment heretofore or hereafter purchased or acquired for the construction of the Panama Canal is no longer needed, or is no longer serviceable, it may be sold in such manner as the President may direct, and without advertising in such classes of cases as may be authorized by him.
Page 569 - anything; multiply the quantity thus obtained by one-third of the common interval between the areas, and the product will be the cubical contents of the space, or cubical contents of each part if the ship is measured in parts under the tonnage deck. The tonnage of this volume is obtained
Page 569 - 2; to the sum of these products add the first and last breadths; multiply the whole sum by one-third of the common interval between the breadths, and the result will give in superficial feet the mean horizontal area of the space; measure the mean height of the space, and multiply
Page 569 - of the vessel. This rule for measuring the depth of the hold applies to double-bottom ships having top of double bottom not horizontal. If the depth at the midship division of the length does not exceed 16 feet, divide each depth into 5 equal parts; then measure the inside horizontal breadth at each of the four
Page 569 - of the stem to the lining on the timbers at the stern, and divide the length into the same number of equal parts into which the length of the tonnage deck is divided, as above directed ; measure (also at the middle of its height) the
Page 569 - of division, and also at the upper point of the depth; number them from above, as before; multiply the second, fourth, and sixth by 4, and the third and fifth by 2; add these products together, and to the sum add the first breadth and the seventh.
Page 556 - the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely: « * * * * * * BELIEF AND PROTECTION OF AMERICAN SEAMEN. Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, the Panama Canal Zone, and the Philippine Islands, $20,000. ***«**• Approved, June 30, 1914.