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Panama City's Hotel Market Enjoying Strong Growth in Advance of Canal ...

World Property Channel - Feb 17, 2012
Panama's growing economy, boosted by the Panama Canal and free trade zone at Colon, helped attract investments and more visitors. International tourist arrivals, according latest figures from the World Tourism Organization, increased by 11.0 percent ...

The Panama Canal: An impossible dream comes true

Morgan Hill Times - Feb 15, 2012
Shady financial manipulations and misleading cost estimates got the Panama Canal Company into trouble almost from the beginning, the company collapsed, politicians were disgraced, de Lesseps' officials were sent to jail and hundreds of small investors ...

Port CEO calls for changes to compete in global marketplace

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Jacksonville Daily Record - Feb 17, 2012
by Joe Wilhelm Jr., Staff Writer The widening of the Panama Canal has received much attention as ports prepare for the larger, post-Panamax ships that will pass through it, but Jacksonville Port Authority CEO Paul Anderson explained Thursday the need ...

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Panama Canal books

The Path Between the Seas

by: David McCullough
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human undertaking that led to the creation of this grand enterprise.

The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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Theodore Rex

by: Edmund Morris
Theodore Rex is the story—never fully told before—of Theodore Roosevelt’s two world-changing terms as President of the United States. A hundred years before the catastrophe of September 11, 2001, “TR” succeeded to power in the aftermath of an act of terrorism. Youngest of all our chief executives, he rallied a stricken nation with his superhuman energy, charm, and political skills. He proceeded to combat the problems of race and labor relations and trust control while making the Panama Canal possible and winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
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