The Colonel's Fireworks A big blast in Culebra Cut. In one year 27,252 tons of dynamite were used from the book Panama and the Canal in picture and prose : a complete story of Panama, as well as the history, purpose and promise of its world-famous canal the most gigantic engineering undertaking since the dawn of time by Willis John Abbot,1863-1934 Published in London ; New York by Syndicate Publishing Co. in 1913

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