Welfare Department - The Dept of Health and Human Services. The US Dept of Health and Human Services oversees a variety of state welfare programs available for those in need across the country. These programs are regulated by the individual states to ensure the right people are getting welfare help that they need.
The Panama Canal is roughly 48 miles long. In kilometers, this rounds to 77.1 kilometers. It is a very long canal that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
On the 18th, Philippe Bunau-Varilla, representing Panama, met with Secretary of State John M. Hay in Washington, D.C., to negotiate the treaty that gave the United States in perpetuity a strip 10 miles (16 km) wide across the isthmus for canal construction.