. Factory and industrial management. em, moreimportant by far than the great cutting through the Cordilleras, whichcalled for complete solution before any ship-canal between Colon andPanama should ever have been attempted. The best of engineers isbut a child when pitted against the forces of nature; he can conciliatethem to his great advantage, but never defy them, and in frank rec-ognition of this fact will be found the inherent strength of the Panamaenterprise, as now understood. Nvs 5 SniH HDIH X301 t (Ud 81 ) m8 ?ON,>IOOT r~^ viNva-oavHOvw Nooov! vaiaond sniH CXi 6ZZ inO 193^
. Factory and industrial management. em, moreimportant by far than the great cutting through the Cordilleras, whichcalled for complete solution before any ship-canal between Colon andPanama should ever have been attempted. The best of engineers isbut a child when pitted against the forces of nature; he can conciliatethem to his great advantage, but never defy them, and in frank rec-ognition of this fact will be found the inherent strength of the Panamaenterprise, as now understood. Nvs 5 SniH HDIH X301 t (Ud 81 ) m8 ?ON,>IOOT r~^ viNva-oavHOvw Nooov! vaiaond sniH CXi 6ZZ inO 193^330) Boaia STTIH lnOldVd3T (Ui n El XJH) Z OM >IJ01 |l (•Id lae idiii I I -ON XOOl I SniH OSOIJ3ialW 33MVaiN3 1VNV3 aoaavH NM0XA3a XSV3 JO aV3H I ( S311W t£ VI3XV1 woaj 30NVlSia) <3AanO HOHXVJ 9 * anoaavH c (id ?•i8S - 5r8S j-jn;^S -OM MOOT r (•id , «« Idll;i OH XOOl I IT ? t oli fid \sz idn) 9 -ON MOOT C •OM yDOn (^ IN 33Nva:cii3 tvNva«novav3iN 3XV1 2< - s THE ENGINEERING PANAMA CANAL. DISPOSAL OF FLOOD WATERS. The scheme of the Comite Technique has been so frequently andfully described in the pages of this Review that there exists nonecessity for lengthened allusion to it. With some modifications, ithas been adopted by the Isthmian Canal Commission as the best possi-ble plan applicable to the circumstances; and its promise of securityis materially strengthened by alliance with a summit-level longer thanappeared in the Technical Committees high-level project and moreelevated than that for which the same body avowed a preference. Themembers of the United States Commission very properly claim thatsimplicity is the marked feature of their plan, and I very cor-dially endorse that description without, however, for a momentadmitting that the original was intricate. By the convenient, if costly,expedient of raising the height of the Bohio dam, the depth andarea of the so-called Bohio Lake section will be so increased that thef
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