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...facilities for handling container ships; today 90% of all cargo passing through the port moves in vans. Says Robert Calder, executive director of the Boston Shipping Association: "The shift from freighters to container ships is no less a revolution than the transition from the sailing ship to the steamship...
...after that landmark encounter, Duncan Cryder, who had been a member of Vanderbilt's party, sounded out another Southampton resident named Samuel Parrish, who was then vacationing in Italy, about the possibility of introducing golf in Southampton. Parrish hurriedly arranged for Willie Dunn to get a passage on a steamship so he could come to Southampton and begin building a golf course at once...
...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...
...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...