SquareTrade (c) AP6.0 A FINANCIAL HISTORY OF THE PANAMA RAILROAD COMPANY, 1849-1949 An Untold Case Study Which Should be Taught in All Business and Management Universities A 193 page case study of A Brief Financial History of the Panama Railroad Company, 1849-1949 is supported by 62 charts, images, maps, and a Bibliography detailing how: John Lloyd Stephens of Maya archaeological fame, in 1848, out-maneuvered French interests from obtaining a concession, from New Granada, to build the Panama Railroad, Completion of the Panama Railroad across the Isthmus of Panama contributed to the early statehood of California, fulfilled the Manifest Destiny of the United States of America, and transformed her into a world power. The Panama Railroad Company Became the Richest Railroad Operation in History on Three Occasions, The Panama Railroad Company was Brought to Near Bankruptcy Five Times by Five Different Transcontinental Competitors, The Panama Railroad Company, a Commercial Empire Rivaling the British East India Company in Scope and Power, Dominated the Isthmus of Panama for over 100 years, French commercial interests, under the directorship of the builder of the Suez Canal, Count Ferdinand de Lesseps, defied the Monroe Doctrine to actually begin building the Panama Canal and subsequently purchase the Panama Railroad Company, in 1881, as a necessity to complete the Canal. The Panama Railroad Company employees participated in the creation of the Republic of Panama on November, 1903. Prominent personages who enter this story are: Balboa, William Henry Aspinwall, Alexander J. Center, Sam Ward, S. L. M. Barlow, Joseph Edward Simmons, Henry Chauncey, Charles G. Franklyn, Alden B. Stockwell, Charles Biddle, Columbus, John Lloyd Stephens; George M. Totten, Trenor W. Park, Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps, John Grimes Walker, Henry Clews, William C. Young, Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt, John Willis Griffiths, Joseph F. Joy, David C. Hoadley, Manuel Amador, Mark Brooke, Philander C. Knox, John Newton, Joseph L. Bristow, Tracy Robinson, John G. McCullough, James Campbell, Russell Sage, Salmon Portland Chase, Thomas William Ludlow, Falmark and Peacock surveys, William Nelson Cromwell, Cornelius Vanderbilt, William Howard Taft, George Washington Goethals, Baring brothers, George "Live Oak" Law, Armand Reclus, Wyse, William Crawford Gorgas. Subject matters discussed at length are: railroads, gold, malaria and yellow fever, Panama Canal, Taboga, Vermont, Pennsylvania Railroad, New Granada, Corps of Engineers, Pacific Mail Steamship Company, Wall Street, New York Stock Exchange, Pacific Steam and Navigation Company, Monroe Doctrine, Isthmian Canal Commission, West Point, Annapolis, John Grimes Walker, merchant marine, steam and clipper ships, Rainbow and Sea Witch, Suez Canal, England, Colombia, Mexico, Spanish Conquistador, Harvard College, Colombia College, geopolitics, Promontory Point, Utah, Central American Steamship Line, Nicaragua, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, U. S. Army, Navy, and Marines, State and Treasury Departments, Central and South America, Farmer's Loan and Trust Company, United States Trust Company, Cape Horn, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Caribbean Sea, Chagres River, Christ Episcopal Church Porto Bello and Las Cruces Trails, Latin America, California, Oregon, New York, Peru, law and legal matters, civil and railroad engineering, Sullivan, Cromwell, Bidlack Mallarino Treaty, Hay Bunau Varilla Treaty, U.S. Senate, House of Representatives. This is a case study that should be introduced in every high school and college level history, business administration, and political science class and be used as a case study by every business and law university in our Nation and abroad. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Jun-07-09 at 09:00:37 PDT, seller added the following information:
About the Author: Captain Julius Grigore, Jr., USN, Retired, is a graduate of Kings Point, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (BS); the University of Detroit (BME and PME); and the Harvard Business School, Advance Management Program (AMP). He was born in Detroit, Michigan, but resides in Venice, Florida following his service with the Panama Canal Company, and the U.S. 448 Captain Julius Grigore Jr., US Navy, Retired Navy at Fort Amador, Canal Zone as Senior Technical Advisor to the Latin American Navies. He is a veteran of World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam Crisis. Captain Grigore received and Outstanding Business Achievement Award from Kings Point in 1961 and was nominated by Rear admiral Gordon S. McClintock, Superintendent, U. S. Merchant Marine Academy, for a Gold Medal Award from the American Society of Naval Architects in 1969 and for the Benjamin Franklin Silver Medal Award, and subsequently was nominated for an award from the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1980. He served two tours of duty for the International Executuve Service Corps, Ghana in 1973 and Peru in 1978. Since 1983, he has been steadily engaged in leisure writing, having been published about 86 times in various international periodicals. His eleven books about the Panama Canal, aerophilately, aviation, travel, arctic and antarctic exploration, cooking, and oranges appear regularly on Ebay. He is a Founding Member of the Panama Historical Society, and a member of the Venice, Florida, Writer's Club.