The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 25; Volume 36National Geographic Society, 1914 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 133
... slides and breaks in the banks of the canal , and effective weapons indeed have they proven . How , with them , she has stood between the canal army and the completion of the task to which it addressed itself consti- tutes the most ...
... slides and breaks in the banks of the canal , and effective weapons indeed have they proven . How , with them , she has stood between the canal army and the completion of the task to which it addressed itself consti- tutes the most ...
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... slide shows on the left side of the picture . Some 10 million pounds of dynamite have been ex- ploded in Culebra and enough material removed to make 26 pyramids , each as large as the Great Pyramid of Cheops , in Egypt , or 2,500 shafts ...
... slide shows on the left side of the picture . Some 10 million pounds of dynamite have been ex- ploded in Culebra and enough material removed to make 26 pyramids , each as large as the Great Pyramid of Cheops , in Egypt , or 2,500 shafts ...
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... slides will begin to appear . There have been times when 170 trains were going out of the cut one day at the south end , only to be stopped entirely the next day by the Cucaracha slide getting busy . Now there may be a dozen tracks in ...
... slides will begin to appear . There have been times when 170 trains were going out of the cut one day at the south end , only to be stopped entirely the next day by the Cucaracha slide getting busy . Now there may be a dozen tracks in ...
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THE RAILROAD DESTROYED BY A SLIDE Colonel Gaillard , who had charge of the work in Culebra Cut , never knew , when he returned to work in the morning , that tracks and shovels would be found as left ... SLIDES .... BREAKS IN THE CANAL. 136.
THE RAILROAD DESTROYED BY A SLIDE Colonel Gaillard , who had charge of the work in Culebra Cut , never knew , when he returned to work in the morning , that tracks and shovels would be found as left ... SLIDES .... BREAKS IN THE CANAL. 136.
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