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...The Isles of Scilly Steamship Company, which since the mid-19th century has operated a Penzance-to-Scilly ferry....
...company in 1936....
...The Belfast-based company which built the Titanic presumably took offence....
..., asks the author, in one of many reprises of the colonial steamship metaphor. The Dutch had no doubt they would be the ones back on Deck 1....
...But the howl that went up on social media, accompanied by the #cancelnetflix hashtag, revealed how the decisions made in the company’s boardrooms don’t always sit well with subscribers....
...The canal radically cut shipping routes and speed quickly gave way to capacity, favouring larger steamships over clippers....
...A century ago, those networks included steamships, railroads and the telegraph system. Today, they include financial markets, multinational supply chains and the internet....
...German steamship “Berlin”, eight weeks before the first world war began in 1914....
...“Au revoir” scrawled Charles Holmes, the museum’s director, on one of the stretchers before the painting was crated to travel by steamship and rail to Huntington’s “ranch”....
...But Mainers built the steamship that took Peary to the North Pole, he says, and they also built the carbon-fibre superyacht that set a transatlantic speed record....
...When Charles Dow in 1884 created the inaugural version of the famous indices that bear his name it consisted of nine railroad stocks, a steamship company and Western Union....
...The advent of steamships transported the disease to the world’s great ports, killing more than 10m people. Aeroplanes are pathogen accelerators....
...Firms supposedly exploiting new technologies such as gas lighting, railways and steamship services offered equity; and to facilitate the exchange of cash for paper a new type of financial professional appeared...
...The writer is co-founder and principal of Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC, a consulting firm Roman roads, Chinese gunpowder, British steamships, repeating firearms: great power competition has always been...
...Shipbuilding dwindled and companies such as the Greek Steamship Company, the first such enterprise in Greece, went under; the few that survived mostly did so by moving to London or New York....
...Yet the company’s mission might serve as an inspiration, too....
...Company founder Yuichi Ishii plays a version of himself in the movie; other parts are played by actors who work for Ishii’s agency; yet everything is scripted by Herzog....
...Railways and steamships brought the wheat of the American prairies cheaply to the bakers of Europe. The telegraph meant London could chat with New York....
...Have a pleasant weekend wherever you are in the world. Your faithful Passepartout, Jonathan Guthrie Head of Lex *Fogg mostly travelled by train and steamship....
...Her father and her grandfather were chairmen of the company....
...In a surprise move, the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company, which has run boat services to the islands since 1926, announced it would be launching its first helicopter link....
...The market-movers of 1896 had solid, descriptive and quietly flag-waving names like Standard Rope & Twine, Pacific Mail Steamship and the North American Company....
...Until then, shipping companies had made most of their profit from steerage passengers emigrating to the Americas, but tighter immigration controls in the US meant that the companies needed to reach wider...
...A foundation stone by the entrance dates the building in Pennsylvania to 1938 and its cramped spaces inside give the feel of the engine room of a steamship....
...The first wave of globalisation that created the Great Divergence expanded markets via the falling cost of transporting physical goods, thanks to the steamship and the railway....
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