Panama Canal 2

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…showed last 75 words of 1547 total…engineer Army lieutenant George Washington Goethals had the training and confidence to make this dream happen. He saved the U.S. millions of dollars and cleaned up the city of Panama. Now ships can travel through the canal and experience the locks system. Not many can say they have experienced the pain and suffering that the construction workers did. Yet when it was all over they had a sense of pride and dignity in them.