Word: steamboated
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Bollinger Shipyards of Louisiana, a major marine-construction and repair company with a global clientele, was mired in the steamboat era when it came to information management. Each of Bollinger's nine facilities was buying its own materials and generating a hefty paper trail. For every part they ordered, employees had to fill out an eight-section purchase order. Those orders added up fast. Each patrol boat Bollinger built for the U.S. Coast Guard contained about 4,000 parts...
...business has two additional branches, Corporate Coach U, founded in 1997, which trains business coaches, and Corporate Coaches, which hires them out to needy firms. Currently owned by CoachInc.Com CEO Sandy Vilas, the company, based in Steamboat Springs, Colo., has 60 staff members who work from home and 3,800 students and graduates in 36 countries. "Last year we took in $4 million," says Vilas. "We're expecting revenues of $10 million...
...began to cease noting the glories and the charms which the moon and the sun and the twilight wrought upon the river's face." Yet when he came to write his novel, all the original wonder returned to him: "Once or twice at night we would see a steamboat slipping along in the dark, and now and then she would belch a whole world of sparks up out of her chimbleys, and they would rain down in the river and look awful pretty; then she would turn a corner and her lights would wink out and her powwow shut...
...Antler Hotel: Houses a half-scale model of James Rumsey's steamboat...
...Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont ran from New York City to Albany in 32 hrs. A sailboat would have taken four days...