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The Panama Canal cost the United States about $375 million, including $10 million paid to Panama and $40 million paid to the French company. Although it was the most expensive construction project in US history to that time, it cost about $23 million less than the 1907 estimate despite landslides and an increase in the canal's width.
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A ship is guided through the Panama Canal's Miraflores locks near Panama City on April 24, 2023. (Luis Acosta/AFP/Getty Images)
(The canal's fiscal year runs from October through September.) [110] This has been coupled with a steady rise in average ship size and in the numbers of Panamax vessels passing through the canal, so that the total tonnage carried rose from 227.9 million PC/UMS tons in fiscal year 1999 to a then record high of 312.9 million tons in 2007, and ...
The Panama Canal Zone (Spanish: Zona del Canal de Panamá), also simply known as the Canal Zone, was a concession of the United States located in the Isthmus of Panama that existed from 1903 to 1979. It consisted of the Panama Canal and an area generally extending five miles (8 km) on each side of the centerline, but excluding Panama City and ...
It won the U.S. National Book Award in History, [3] the Francis Parkman Prize, [4] the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, [5] and the Cornelius Ryan Award. [6] The book details people, places, and events involved in building the Panama Canal. The title refers to the connection between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans that the opening of the canal created.
1914: The Panama Canal opens. 1916: Battle of Jutland, claimed to be the largest naval battle in history, counting tonnage of engaged ships. 1918: HMS Furious (47) becomes the first aircraft carrier used in warfare. 1937: USS Leary (DD-158) becomes the first American vessel to be equipped with radar.