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Name: George W. Goethals, Panama Canal engineer
Author: Jean Lee Latham

📘 George W. Goethals, Panama Canal engineer by Jean Lee Latham

A biography of the West Point graduate who learned civil engineering "from the ground up" and supervised the completion of the Panama Canal.

First publish date: 1965

Authors: Jean Lee Latham

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