Atlantic-Gulf Ship Canal Across FLorida: Hearings Before the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 3222 and H.R. 3223, Bills for the Completion of the Construction of the Atlantic-Gulf Ship Canal Across Florida. February and March 1939U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 - 365 pages |
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