Chinese labor

[Greg Nowell]

That's about one per mile.  I would bet that more fell to the weather
conditions than to the dynamite.  What was the ethnic composition of all
those who worked (and died) on the Panama Canal?  -gn.

Rakesh Bhandari wrote:


> I left out the word perished in the following quote:
> > summer. It is estimated that more than 1200 Chinese PERISHED before the
> two > railroad lines were united with a solid golden spike."
> >
> > p. 142-3
> >
> > rb
> >
> >

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Gregory P. Nowell
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