Forty five years after the U.S. first considered building ... for a feasible canal route. They deem a Panama canal too expensive and propose a canal in Nicaragua with 12 locks at either end ...

have naturally directed the attention of the government once more to the question of the proper width to be given to the locks of the Panama Canal. It is the locks that determine the capacity of ...

Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder of the Suez Canal, led the project. His plan called for a sea-level canal to be dug along the path of the Panama Railroad ... experience building lock-type canals ...