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...fact that stock prices have lagged behind inflation for a decade leads some analysts to expect a great bull market to erupt some time in the 1980s. Says Harry Jacobs, chairman of Bache Halsey: "Over a long period of time, the stock prices that HULL we are seeing now will be viewed as cheap...
According to one theory, Wood intended to go off in the dinghy, to be alone and breathe the brisk Pacific night. Whiting spent the night after the accident aboard the Splendour and struck upon an alternative theory: maybe Wood, kept awake by the sound of Valiant banging against the hull in the breeze, slipped overboard while trying to move the dinghy to the yacht's leeward side...
...flares signaling distress whooshed up from the conning tower, and the radio put out the call "Mayday, Mayday." Under the sea's battering, the submarine developed a 17° list to starboard. The vessel's large electrical storage batteries threatened to leak acid that could fill the hull with poisonous chlorine...
...four Matson had built at three different yards from identical plans. The BIW ship was unquestionably the best. Says AJ. Haskell, Matson's senior vice president and a former Navy officer: "It may sound like I work for them. But look at the fairness of the hull, its smoothness, which is determined by the quality of the welding. You can walk down the pier and compare the Maui with the Kauai, the ship another company built for us. You can immediately tell which is the better ship. The Bath-built hull is fairer." The Maui was also delivered five...
...Divers, working in pairs, were conditioned to the extreme pressures of the Barents Sea bottom in special chambers aboard the ship, then were lowered to the hulk in a diving bell. To protect themselves from the killing cold of the water as they cut through the Edinburgh 's hull, the divers wore suits that circulated hot water around their bodies...