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Identifier: panamacanalinpic01abbo (find matches)
Title: Panama and the canal in picture and prose ..
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Abbot, Willis John, 1863-1934. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York (etc.) Pub. in English and Spanish by Syndicate publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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TIVOLI HOTEL FROM HOSPITAL GROUNDS MESTIZO GIRL OF CHORRERA to attempt building up foreign trade. Inci-dentally sometimes what is goodenough for a home market is oftentoo good for a Latin-American one.The English and the Germans recog-nize this and govern themselves ac-cordingly. It is a far cry from digging a canalto the system of educating youngmen to represent a firm in foreignlands. Yet one finds in visitingSouth America, or for that matterOriental cities, that a great deal ofthe rapid expansion of German tradeis due to the systematic education ofboys for business in foreign lands.The weakest part of the educationalsystem of the United States is itsindifference to foreign tongues, anindifference possibly quite natural be-cause but few Americans have reallyany need for any language excepttheir own. But the German represen-tatives sent to South America are athome in the Spanish tongue, and care- pSffiS^-^
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