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Article: ANOTHER KIND OF AMERICAN EXPORT.
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- January 1, 2000
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Our way of business is respected and envied the world over: this report from the Panama Canal.
You think you know your wife of many years until she says one day, "You know, I've always wanted to go through the Panama Canal." Well, since the canal was soon to be turned back to the Panamanians, we decided to do it sooner rather than later. We got there a couple of weeks before the turnover.
Two things impressed us greatly. The first was the realization of the incredible engineering feat that is the Panama Canal. It is about 50 miles long. In the late 1800s, the Frenchman who had built the Suez Canal, Ferdinand de Lesseps, had hoped to become an even ...