Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 412
not deter the people of France from buy-ing the bonds and stocks of the Panama CanalCompany, and the money was soon raised. The CUTTING A HEMISPHERE IN TWO. 399 genius of the company was the man who hadconstructed the Suez Canal, and his presence at the head of theundertaking wassufficient to… … tency, mismanagement, and lack of knowledgeof the grave conditions that confronted thecontractors on the isthmus combined to delaythe work, and in time to wreck the company.The inside history of the story may never bemade perfectly plain to the world. Millions ofdollars worth of machinery that was…
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