Tuesday, February 28, 2012

the Panama Canal - the greatest civil engineering project in history


A two-hour program on the History Channel a few days ago looked at this, and it made you realise what a mammoth undertaking it was, all funded and supervised by the US Government. Lesser known aspects include the decision to kill all mosquitoes in the canal zone to stop yellow fever which was killing off lots of the (mainly West Indian) workers.

You wonder what the attitude of Congressional Republicans - who don't even want money spent on a few high speed rail lines - would be today.

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