. History of the Panama canal; its construction and builders . roducts. The raw material used is clay,which is mined from properties owned bythe company in proximity to the markets,thus providing for the transportation of thefinished ware with economy. The factories of the company, twenty-six in all, have a total annual capacity ofabout 1,000,000 tons of finished company has engineering, construct-ing, and draughting organizations in con-nection with its offices in Pittsburgh, NewYork, and Chicago, and maintains a com-pletely equipped testing laboratory inChicago. It has offices in
. History of the Panama canal; its construction and builders . roducts. The raw material used is clay,which is mined from properties owned bythe company in proximity to the markets,thus providing for the transportation of thefinished ware with economy. The factories of the company, twenty-six in all, have a total annual capacity ofabout 1,000,000 tons of finished company has engineering, construct-ing, and draughting organizations in con-nection with its offices in Pittsburgh, NewYork, and Chicago, and maintains a com-pletely equipped testing laboratory inChicago. It has offices in several of themore important cities of the United States,from New England to the Pacific Coast. With the introduction of modern build-ing construction at the Isthmus, consequentupon the beginning of work at the canal andthe housing of government employees, callswere made on manufacturers of all sorts ofbuilding material combining elements ofornament and attractiveness, as well asdurability and protection. In this con-nection there was brought into the canal.
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