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Identifier: panamacanalinpic01abbo (find matches)
Title: Panama and the canal in picture and prose ..
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Abbot, Willis John, 1863-1934. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York (etc.) Pub. in English and Spanish by Syndicate publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Pho!o bu American Press Association LOCK CONSTRUCTION SHOWING CONDUITS SOME PHASES OF OUR FOREIGN TRADE 591 result of dulling the keen spirit of adventurousenterprise for which our people were once noted.The absolute possession of a home market evergrowing in size and into which no foreigner couldenter with any hope of successful competition hasnaturally engaged at home the attention of ourcaptains of industry. Bold and dashing spirits ofthe sort that one hundred years ago were covering president or the head of a great manufacturingindustry. Whether the earlier spirit of world conquest willagain spring up in the American mind so long con-tent with the profits of its own national preservesis yet to be demonstrated. To what extent it hasvanished any thoughtful traveler in foreign landsobserves with a sigh. One sees evidences of its
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TRAVELING CRANE HANDLING CONCRETE IN LOCK-BUILDINGThese cranes are the striking feature of the Canal landscape, handling thousands of tons of concrete daily the seas with Baltimore clippers and the output ofthe New England shipyards turned their attentionhalf a century ago to the building of railroads andthe development of our western frontier. Whenthe middle-aged men of today were boys, the heroesof their story books ran away to sea and afterincredible adventures came home in command ofclipper ships trading to China. Today the sameclass of fiction starts the aspiring boy in as a brake-man or a mill hand and he emerges as a railroad weakness at every foreign international exhibition,for the American section is generally the least im-pressive there. The opinion of our manufacturersis often that to show their products abroad is follybecause foreign manufacturers will imitate themwith cheaper materials and labor. In most foreignmarkets, in the cities of Europe, South Americaand the Orien

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