His company failed. In the eighteen nineties, an American company tried to build a canal across Nicaragua.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

In the eighteen eighties, Ferdinand de Lesseps -- builder of the Suez Canal -- formed a French company to build a waterway across Panama.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

The Union Pacific Railroad Company had helped build a railroad across the American west to California.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

The company's owners said the mountain was too big to build a railroad around it.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

The North American Aviation company won the competition to design and build the plane.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

It chose the McDonnell Aircraft Company to design and build the Mercury spacecraft.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

On a 9.6-hectare tract of land . on the Texas coast south of Houston, a start-up company from Florida called Algenol, in partnership with the Dow Chemical company, plans to build more than 3,000 bioreactors,starting next year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02