 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interoceanic Canals - 1906 - 1036 lapas
...occupy but little space and would certainly be guarded effectively. The danger would be at the points where a narrow waterway traverses a jungle, favoring...dynamite where the ship must certainly pass, and where a man concealed in the undergrowth could lie in wait to fire the mine with a portable electrical igniter,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interoceanic Canals - 1906 - 1050 lapas
...occupy but little space and would certainly be guarded effectively. The danger would be at the points where a narrow waterway traverses a jungle, favoring the placing of a bag of dvnamite where the ship must certainly pass, and where a man concealed in the undergrowth could lie... | |
 | John Robertson Dunlap, Arthur Van Vlissingen, John M. Carmody - 1906 - 1176 lapas
...locks future generations can increase the passage capacity of the transit route to any desired extent. It remains to consider the dangers which have been...abound on the long and narrow route of the sea-level projet, but are rare and easily watched on the relatively broad lake route. The risk is distinctly... | |
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... of modern high explosives, I have given thought to the relative dangers of such attempts as directed against the two projects. The most vulnerable points are not the locks and sluiceways, for these occupy but little space and would certainly be guarded... 