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Before Thomas Pyle worked for the Harvard Community Health Plan in 1972, he did some consulting work with the British Ocean Steamship Company, one of the finest shipbuilding companies in the world...
...Ocean Steamship had a tremendous record with its wares. An average Ocean vessel spent only about eight hours each year in drydock for repairs. No ship ever left Ocean's docks without the personal inspection by the company's director. But when the veteran shipbuilders bought a tanker of their own, for all their master craftsmanship, they simply couldn't get an insurance company to give them a break...
...petroleum cartel. The export price of bananas has remained flat for two decades at about 80 per Ib., while retail prices have climbed steadily, mostly to the benefit of three U.S.-owned companies that grow, ship and market the fruit: United Brands, Del Monte and Standard Fruit & Steamship. Acting singly, the growing countries could not get a bigger slice of the banana pie. Unlike petroleum, bananas cannot be stockpiled; in fact, they must be eaten within twelve days of being picked or they become too soft fpr most palates. So if any one country tried to raise taxes, the three...
With the help of his set designer and choreographers, director Ken Kanter has made everything go. It seems incredible that the handkerchief stage of Leverett should represent a steamship, but Michael Herter's set offers Cunard luxury -- a gangway, two decks, three staterooms. The direction of Kanter and his choreographers -- Michael Ricardo, Lise Landis and Michael Collapy -- creates out of the small cast the impression of an extravaganza; their next goal should be precision...
...four years old when, steaming at full speed through fog over the Grand Banks, freighted with "manhood in its strength and daring, and woman in her trust and beauty, and youth with its sunny gladness," as a preacher wrote later, the Arctic collided with a small iron-hulled French steamship and sank. Crew members commandeered all but one of the lifeboats, and most of the 233 passengers, including the owner's wife and two children, drowned. Two years later the Collins Line's Pacific steamed into an ice field and disappeared without a trace. But nothing could alter...