ENLARGING PANAMA CANAL
TENDER OF 22,000.000 DOLLARS ACCEPTED [U.P.A.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] San Francisco, Apl. 20. The Henry J. Kaiser Company, of Oakland, California, announced to-day that its tender of 22,436,860 dollars for enlarging the Panama Canal had been accepted by the War Department.
The project calls for the excavation of a third set of locks on the Pacific side of the canal. Work will begin in 30 days. The successful tender was almost 2,000,000 dollars below the next lowest.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 22 April 1941, Page 4
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