PANAMA CITY, PANAMA — Hordes of tourists clad in cruise line T-shirts and baseball caps shared the observation deck with men dressed in business suits and monogrammed company shirts. The crowd ...

Panama: Dig We Must; Panama: Dig We Must. 4 minute read. TIME. December 25, 1964 12:00 AM GMT-5. ... “has completed an intensive review of policy toward the present and future of the Panama Canal.

TO DIG THE PANAMA CANAL; A. Hutin, Director General of the French Company, in Town. ON HIS WAY TO WASHINGTON Says He Comes from Paris to See What Interest the United States Will Take in the Project.

Often called one of the seven modern wonders of the world, the Panama Canal splits the continents of North and South America ...

The new blasting and digging provided “a fantastic opportunity to see fresh rocks,” says Carlos Jaramillo, a staff geologist and botanist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.

The Panama Canal needs more water. ... which could be tapped to replenish the canal when the water levels drop, and dig a 5-mile-long tunnel to connect it to the canal.

To ensure the canal could be built, then-President Theodore Roosevelt supported Panamanian independence, and in 1903, the U.S. and Panama signed a treaty that established permanent U.S. rights to ...