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Cullen, Bob,

A Man, a Plan, a Canal: Panama Rises. Bob Cullen. - Smithsonian, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Article 7, Global Issues, 1522-3221; .

Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Originally Published: A Man, a Plan, a Canal: Panama Rises, March 2004; pp. 44-54.

This article details how, "after ten years and a cost of $352 million and 5,609 lives, the United States successfully completed the [Panama] canal....The construction of the canal proved both an imaginative solution to a formidable engineering problem and a signal of the United States' emergence as a great power" (SMITHSONIAN).

1522-3221;


Roosevelt Theodore


Canals--History
Railroads


Panama--Description and travel
Panama--Politics and government
Panama Canal (Panama)--History
Panama--History

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