Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . s agreement between the United States andthe Republic of Panama. When the United Statesfirst announced its purpose of takingover the Zone and building theCanal, there was joy among thebusiness folks of Panama and saw fat pickings in purveyingthe necessities of life for a new popu-lation of considerable size. Visionsof the return of the flush times ofthe French engaged their imagina-tions. All these pleasurable anticipa-tions were doused under the wetblanket of the Commissary into whichgoes the major part of the spendingmoney of the empl
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . s agreement between the United States andthe Republic of Panama. When the United Statesfirst announced its purpose of takingover the Zone and building theCanal, there was joy among thebusiness folks of Panama and saw fat pickings in purveyingthe necessities of life for a new popu-lation of considerable size. Visionsof the return of the flush times ofthe French engaged their imagina-tions. All these pleasurable anticipa-tions were doused under the wetblanket of the Commissary into whichgoes the major part of the spendingmoney of the employees. But thereare Americans on the Zone, otherthan employees and their families,and these by a solemn internationalcompact are handed over to the Panamanianmercies. To buy at the Commissary you must havea coupon book, and without an employees number all very well, but lacks in those superfluities forwhich every one yearns. The two governments,by the way, which protected the Panama merchantsagainst American competition also protected a hand-.
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