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...vessel's golden cargo hit the dock, an act of giving and building unparalleled in history got underway. The Marshall Plan had become a reality...
Brass Spittoons. Born in the Wollochet Bay area of Puget Sound, Hunt traveled to school in Tacoma, Wash., on his father's 120-ft. steamboat Atalanta, earned pocket money steam-cleaning the vessel's brass spittoons. He quit high school after two years, blitzed through an accounting course and shipped out aboard a steamship plying trade with the Orient, eventually earning a master mariner's rating. After working on a pineapple plantation in Hawaii, Hunt returned home at 20 and set up a brief partnership in a Puget Sound ferry service. In 1927, he bluffed...
What makes the case of the Torrey Canyon really complex is the threatened damage suits. Like most vessels afloat today, the tanker carried more than hull insurance; it also had P & I (for Protection and Indemnity), which is insurance against damage to persons, piers or other objects while the ship is in operation. The primary P & I insurer was the Marine Office of America in New York City, a consortium that carried $2,500,000 on the vessel. Union also had an undisclosed amount of P & I with other companies, enough presumably to match at least...
...1860s, when maritime raiders roamed the East Coast to lure sailing ships onto reefs and loot them, a mustached sea captain, Israel J. Merritt of New York, organized an honest salvage operation. Merritt's aim was to save a vessel from sinking if he could-or, if he could not, to salvage it and its cargo. He succeeded so well that his firm, joined by two others, grew into Merritt-Chapman & Scott, the nation's largest corporation involved in marine salvage, and later a construction giant as well. But eventually, Merritt-Chapman & Scott itself fell prey to raiders...
...scale of magnitude, like bungalows in the architectural world." Then why bother? Miller supplies his own answer: The short story is a form in which a writer can be as concise as his subject requires him to be. For a playwright, he says, the short story offers "a vessel for those feelings which, unelaborated, are truer, and yet for one reason or another do not belong on a stage...