El dulce olor a quemado de la historia. Entrar a la Zona del Canal

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one of the american engineers and roughnecks who went to panama to bu mericans your dream of an interoceanic canal is near to realization w d panaman panamerican yes something like that i left with my mother a d the canal gave two cents for the political ambiguities of their na re the spanish scoffed and the french failed the americans have trium ster after my father had been detentioned for presumably stockpilin n’s title to the zone they went looking for work and adventure in 189 ed south america like africa soon will become an island and the hero rms and munitions for what I imagined was the 19th nervous breakdown he superintendent of the census had announced that the american fron earchings after a passage to the spice islands by columbus will reac cuba this was in 1956 he was later released moved to hawaii and from r was no more but between 1904 and 1914 when the canal opened for bu uition in 1913 by the hands of a nation not of the world which he kn here has been moving to and from the city of Saigon what is now know ess there was a last american wahoo in panama nature was still wi w but of that very new world which he discovered the panama canal has s co chi minh city ballard aren't children born in the Canal Zone ca here moreover it was tropical lending it to some of the same horror f e broadest significance in the prodigious transformations it will mak d zonians prince yes the canal zone has represented for some time th north americans that the dark forests of massachusetts had held fo n the world’s geography it is the literal fulfillment of the scriptur oncept of unlimited possibility prince this year eleven years after he puritans there were wild indians in panama tropical boo’s hobos an promise to man that he should have dominance over all the earth ther ft panama i tried to return to panama ballard you're eighteen princ few old-fashioned badmen the zone’s first chief of police was geo rg poetic justice in the snatching of this vast enterprise from the pa es ballard the newspapers said your flight to panama originated from hanton the original laramie kid in buffalo bill’s wild west show an am ntal hands of europe by the lusty offspring of the western hemispher awaii how did that happen prince i've been living with my father in h rican in panama could find the unexpectedness that was so much a pa we thereby vindicate our slogan of america for americans because we h olulu all summer blonde on blonde jimi hendrix the doors there's an a f the fascination of the frontier a short trip upriver in a cayuc o e demonstrated our sufficiency in the face of the largest demand upo hetic revolution going on class systems have seemed to disappea g canoe and he might come upon an indian maiden clad in all her in man’s engineering acumen if it should have been said in 1914 that i hings are opening up i'm sure the liberation will be brief my father ay in 1906 an American mechanic living on santa ana plaza looked ou ine years we would have removed more than 200,000,000 cubic yards of s become involved in introducing a defoliant in vietnam someone wan de and decided to take the day off from his window he watched an al rth and rock laid 5,000,000 cubic yards of concrete made dams and he jungles to disappear so u.s. soldiers can see the enemy the death ay on-again off-again battle in the park below men fought with canes s of more than 50,000,000 cubic yards relocated the panama railroa affect i think they call it ballard your father sounds like someone w


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