Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . Iholo bi/ Underwood dc Underwood COMPLETED CANAL AT COEOZAL CHAPTER VIII THE FORMATIVE PERIOD. MERICAN control of thecanal, as I have alreadypointed out, was taken overwithout any particular cere-mony immediately after thepayment to Panama of the$10,000,000 provided for inthe treaty. Indeed soslight was the friction in-cident to the transfer ofownership from theFrench to the Americans that several hundred la-borers employed on the Culebra Cut went on withtheir work serenely unconscious of any change inmanagement. But though work was uninterruptedt
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . Iholo bi/ Underwood dc Underwood COMPLETED CANAL AT COEOZAL CHAPTER VIII THE FORMATIVE PERIOD. MERICAN control of thecanal, as I have alreadypointed out, was taken overwithout any particular cere-mony immediately after thepayment to Panama of the$10,000,000 provided for inthe treaty. Indeed soslight was the friction in-cident to the transfer ofownership from theFrench to the Americans that several hundred la-borers employed on the Culebra Cut went on withtheir work serenely unconscious of any change inmanagement. But though work was uninterruptedthe organization of the directing force took time andthought. It tookmore than demanded thetesting out ofmen in highplace and therejection of theunfit; patient ex-perimenting withmethods and theabandonment ofthose that failedto produce re-sults. There wasa long period ofthis experimentalwork whichsorely tried thepatience of theAmerican peoplebefore the canal-digging organi-zation fell into Its stride and ruoto bu underwood * underwood moved on with tunnel for the 147 a certain and resistless progress toward the goal. In accordan
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