Excerpt from Panama Canal Commission Authorization, Fiscal Year 1995: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Navigation of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session; March 1, 1994 First of all, not in my prepared text, but I would say to you that we are about five months into my tenure as Chairman, and the Canal is still operating, at least as of this morning. So I think there has been no negative effect in terms of my being somebody from outside the military establishment and as Chairman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.