designed the submarines Iquiqie and Antofagasta for the Chilean Navy, and the Seattle Construction and Drydock Company was tasked in tailoring these submarines to client specifications. After a series of tests, the Chilean engineers were dissatisfied with the current state of the submarines; however, they did not reject the transaction. The Electric Company and the Seattle Construction and Drydock Company had claimed that Chile had trouble finalizing the payment. A Fleeting Opportunity Just before
The Panama Canal 1. The panama canal It is the canal across the Isthmus of Panama, in Central America, that allows vessels to travel between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans The waterway measures 82 km (50 mi), including dredged approach channels at each end. The Panama Canal handles a large volume of world shipping and enables vessels to avoid traveling around South America, reducing their voyages by thousands of miles and many days Built by the United States from 1904 to 1914
In 1825, a group of American businesspeople announced the formation of a canal building company, with interests in constructing a canal system across the Isthmus. This project was to take place in an area now called Panama. The endeavor was filled with controversy. Though the canal itself was not built until the early 1900's every step toward the building and ownership, was saturated with difficulty. Walter LaFeber illustrates the dilemmas in a historical analysis. In his work he states five questions
Chaos and continual disorder encompassed the people across the globe in the years prior to the declaration of war between the Axis and Allied powers in 1939. The Great Depression that had struck soon after the First World War left much of the world unemployed and desperate for relief. Nationalism swept through Germany in response to the terms of the Versailles Treaty that ended World War I. China and Japan had been at war since Japanese troops invaded Manchuria in 1931. Germany, Italy, and Japan
1.0 Introduction Dubai’s debt exists as a fundamentally important aspect of modern economic research. Set against a backdrop of fluctuating stock prices, an unstable real estate market and an uncertain world economy, speculation about the future of Dubai is rife, despite Dubai initially appearing to bear the global financial crisis far better than most other affected countries. However, Dubai shocked the world by requesting a moratorium on debt repayment on 25 of November 2009. Foreign banks had
Admiralty Outline Overview Admiralty is federal law, originating in Article III, § 2 of Constitution. i. First Congress included Cases of Admiralty/Maritime in Judiciary Act. ii. Supremacy Clause. b. If say that case is admiralty/maritime case, governed by admiralty law, is to say that substantive admiralty law applies. i. Differences: statute of limitations, comparative laws for recovery, etc. a. Main: trial by judge. From very beginning, admiralty cases are w/o juries. May