The Key of the Pacific: The Nicaragua CanalA. Constable, 1895 - Počet stran: 443 |
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... interests would be affected by the Canal . The reader will find in these pages the results of an examination of the problem in all its varied bearings- mechanical , commercial , and political - made on the ground and in the study , and ...
... interests would be affected by the Canal . The reader will find in these pages the results of an examination of the problem in all its varied bearings- mechanical , commercial , and political - made on the ground and in the study , and ...
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... interest was naturally revived in the question of providing an alternative route , safer , more rapid , and less costly , to that round Cape Horn , or across the wild country and passes of the Rockies . The result was the construction ...
... interest was naturally revived in the question of providing an alternative route , safer , more rapid , and less costly , to that round Cape Horn , or across the wild country and passes of the Rockies . The result was the construction ...
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... Interest during construction , eight years , on moneys as required Say , in round figures 3,750,000 £ 23,182,000 2,320,000 £ 25,502,000 10,440,000 £ 35,942,000 £ 36,000,000 A portion of the Chagres river has been utilized for the canal ...
... Interest during construction , eight years , on moneys as required Say , in round figures 3,750,000 £ 23,182,000 2,320,000 £ 25,502,000 10,440,000 £ 35,942,000 £ 36,000,000 A portion of the Chagres river has been utilized for the canal ...
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... interests lie . " This clause was held by him to be an " entangling alliance , " inconsistent with the declared public policy of the United States . It was this objection which led to the concessions of Nicaragua and Costa Rica to ...
... interests lie . " This clause was held by him to be an " entangling alliance , " inconsistent with the declared public policy of the United States . It was this objection which led to the concessions of Nicaragua and Costa Rica to ...
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... interest at 3 per cent . , payable quarterly , the principal to fall due in not less than ten , nor more than thirty years . Each bond is to bear the following guarantee : - " The United States of America guarantee to the lawful holder ...
... interest at 3 per cent . , payable quarterly , the principal to fall due in not less than ten , nor more than thirty years . Each bond is to bear the following guarantee : - " The United States of America guarantee to the lawful holder ...
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aforesaid amount ARTICLE association Atlantic basin bonds Britain Brito cent Central America Chagres river channel Chontales Clayton-Bulwer treaty coast commerce Company of Nicaragua concession Congress construction contract Corinto cost Costa Rica cubic feet depth Deseado directors distance Divide cut dredging embankments engineers enterprise established estimate excavation favour feet per second Government of Nicaragua Granada granted Greytown guarantee harbour important interest issued isthmus labour Lake Managua Lake Nicaragua lands laws locks Managua Maritime Canal Company material Menocal ment miles Monroe doctrine nations navigation necessary Nicaragua Canal Ochoa dam opening operation Pacific Ocean Panama parties ports present President proposed railroad railway Republic of Nicaragua river San Juan rock route San Carlos San Francisco San Juan river Secretary Senate slope South Spanish steamers stream Suez Canal summit level thereof tion trade traffic Treasury treaty valley vessels volcanic water-way weirs Western Divide width
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Strana 298 - Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same ; which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers ; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government for us ; to cultivate friendly relations with it, and to preserve those relations by a frank, firm, and manly policy ; meeting, in all instances, the just claims of every power, submitting to injuries...
Strana 296 - At the proposal of the Russian Imperial Government, made through the minister of the Emperor residing here, a full power and instructions have been transmitted to the minister of the United States at St. Petersburg to arrange by amicable negotiation the respective rights and interests of the two nations on the northwest coast of this continent.
Strana 344 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
Strana 340 - ... with any state or people, for the purpose of erecting or maintaining any such fortifications, or of occupying, fortifying, or colonizing Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America, or of assuming or exercising dominion over the same...
Strana 299 - I told him specially that we should contest the right of Russia to any territorial establishment on this continent, and that we should assume distinctly the principle that the American continents are no longer subjects for any new European colonial establishments.
Strana 359 - Panama grants to the United States the use of all the ports of the Republic open to commerce as places of refuge for any vessels employed in the Canal enterprise...
Strana 344 - And whereas the said convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged in the city of Washington, on the...
Strana 409 - Company"; and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and to be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity within the United States...
Strana 341 - V. The contracting parties further engage, that when the said canal shall have been completed, they will protect it from interruption, seizure, or unjust confiscation, and that they will guarantee the neutrality thereof, so that the said canal may forever be open and free, and the capital invested therein secure.
Strana 283 - The capital invested by corporations or citizens of other countries in such an enterprise must in a great degree look for protection to one or more of the great powers of the world. No European power can intervene for such protection without adopting measures on this continent which the United States would deem wholly inadmissible.