Word: ardshiel
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...Talbot, a former airline executive from California, would own 30 percent of the airline. Eastern's unions would get another 30 percent of the company in exchange for wage and work-rule concessions. The remaining 40 percent would be held by new investors, including Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. and Ardshiel Inc., a smaller New York firm...
...time Mostert has evoked this world-as graphically as Conrad presents the Sturm und Drang facing the captain of the steamer Nan-Shan in Typhoon-the reader, stuffed with sea lore, has been shanghaied aboard a ghostly voyage from the demanding past into the threatening future. Ardshiel has bicycles-for exercising on deck-but no ship pets, because. Mostert suggests, there is no crew continuity. (By contrast, the Aquitania, when scrapped in 1950, disgorged ship's cats all descended from a tabby who went aboard on the maiden voyage in 1914). Mostert mildly mourns the fact that nobody refers...
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