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Panama Canal
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  • That's why he'd sent his ship all the way down to the Panama Canal.†  (source)
  • Two of his brothers became mercenary soldiers, one died of malaria on the Panama Canal, one became a surveyor in Burma and India, and the last made tracks for the eastern seaboard at seventeen, never to be heard from again.†  (source)
  • Down on the well decks, fore and aft, were four massive pumps that had to be delivered to Colon, the port at the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal.†  (source)
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  • As President Carter's deputy secretary of state, he helped normalize relations with China, win ratification of the Panama Canal treaties, and gain release of the American hostages in Iran.†  (source)
  • The investigation of the Panama Canal has been struck out.†  (source)
  • Vast new container ships known as PNXs, too large to transit the Panama Canal, now ply the Pacific between China, Taiwan, and South Korea and Portland, Oregon; Seattle, Washington; and Vancouver, British Columbia.†  (source)
  • Each of these missiles, in short, is capable of striking Washington, D.C., the Panama Canal, Cape Canaveral, Mexico City, or any other city in the southeastern part of the United States, in Central America, or in the Caribbean area.†  (source)
  • The Panama Canal client came in at four-thirty.†  (source)
  • Must have been the year the Panama Canal was opened.†  (source)
  • Judgment Day is at the upper limit in terms of tonnage that can pass through the Panama Canal.†  (source)
  • Panama Canal!†  (source)
  • First, the client who was the backbone of the business—the man who paid out thousands a year for clippings on the Panama Canal and such—came in the day after the declaration of war and said that since his address would be uncertain for a while, he'd call in person each day for his clippings.†  (source)
  • Four days later, Gaillard Cut, Panama Canal  (source)
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