Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worked perfectly. Thanks largely to the efforts of Major General George W. Goethals and his predecessor as chief engineer, John Stevens, the canal was not only completed on time, in 1914, but for $23 million less than had been estimated by the U.S. in 1907. By the time the steamship Ancon sailed through the canal in the official grand opening on Aug. 15,1914, World War I had just erupted and the celebrations were subdued. Even so, the canal was?and is?one of mankind's most memorable achievements, the moon shot...
...photographers eager to see Senator Edward Kennedy's son at his summer job in Hyannis, Mass. Teddy, 15, and four or five other youths help passengers bound for the Nantucket ferry park their cars in the lot of the Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority. Salary: $2.35 per hour. The job is the first for Teddy, who had his right leg amputated in 1973 because of bone cancer. So far, he is happy with his post. "It's an all right job," he said, adding, "It's better than not doing anything this...
Before Thomas Pyle worked for the Harvard Community Health Plan in 1972, he did some consulting work with the British Ocean Steamship Company, one of the finest shipbuilding companies in the world...
...Ocean Steamship had a tremendous record with its wares. An average Ocean vessel spent only about eight hours each year in drydock for repairs. No ship ever left Ocean's docks without the personal inspection by the company's director. But when the veteran shipbuilders bought a tanker of their own, for all their master craftsmanship, they simply couldn't get an insurance company to give them a break...
...work with Ocean Steamship convinced me that insurance people were less than imaginative when assigning rates," Pyle says now. And for the health plan, which experienced a $150,000 malpractice insurance hike in one year despite no comparative increase in the number of malpractice suits, a private non-profit insurance company was just what was needed...