TO MAKE PANAMA CANAL SAFE IN WARTIME
— r*** Received Tuesday, 7 p.m. NEW YORK, April 22. Mr. Thomas Thompson, chief Panama Ganal geologist, has begun recruiting geologists to make surVeys preparatory to extensive alterations. to tlie canai. The surveys will determine the prac ticability of a number of propo'sals aimed at making the' canal less vulnerable in wartime. Mr. Thompson said tlie most proniising proposal Avas to eliminate the locks and con vert the canal into a sea Ipvel waterway. This would involve history 's greatest excavating job and require tlie lowering of Gatun Lalce whicli at present is 85 feet above sea level.
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 April 1946, Page 5
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