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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. x, 831 pages; Former owner's name on front wrapper "E. Graves", otherwise clean and secure in original printed wrappers which are worn at edges. text black "fanned." OCLC 503983623 locations cited in WorldCat. Illustrated with dozens of plates, graphs, maps and tables of which 48 are fold-out. All present and in very good condition. "In recent years the traffic through the Panama Canal has grown rapidly. This increase has narrowed the gap between capacity and traffic demand to the point where some concern was aroused as to future capacity and a possible limit of all service by the canal. the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of Congress, appointed a Board of Consultants on Isthmian Canal Studies to investigate short- and long-range plans for the operation, improvements, and other matters relating to the adequacy of the Panama Canal, and to submit a report thereon. As its first assignment, the Board of Consultants made an investigation and study of a short-range improvement program to the Panama Canal, and under date of July 15, 1958, submitted its report thereon. The Board continued its studies and investigations under the authority contained in House Resolution 105 of the 86th Congress. The Board of Consultants has also made an investigation and study of a long-range program for the operation, construction, and improvements to the Panama Canal, and the Board now submits its report on a long-range program together with its conclusions and recommendations." In 1960 the President of the Panama Canal Company reviewed the 1947 study and recommended immediate investigation of the possibility of excavation of a sea-level canal by nuclear methods. If the nuclear-excavation technology were not developed by the early 1970's, he believed that plans should be made for the conversion of the existing canal to sea-level by conventional methods. In its Report on a Long-Range Program for Isthmian Canal Transits in 1960, a Board of Consultants to the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries concluded that "the ultimate solution to the basic problem of increasing the capacity is probably a sea-level canal, but its construction should await a traffic volume that can support the large cost".