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Benefits Of Building The Panama Canal

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As I said before, building the Panama Canal was dangerous work full of daily complications. They faced things they couldn’t change like rain, death, people giving up, scandals back home and the never ending amount of dirt. But they seemed to always figure out these problems, they had a big bank account and a lot of machinery. There were other problems though that took a more permanent toll such as Yellow Fever and Malaria. They eventually found a cure for these illnesses but many lives were lost. Everything seemed to play out with time but in the moment it seemed like every time the project would succeed something would push it down again. You could see why many perceived the Panama Canal as a waste of money and talent but President Roosevelt

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