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One fact above all had traditionally defined life along the waterfront: employment was highly irregular. One day, the urgent need to unload perishable cargo could create jobs for all comers. The next day, there might be no work at all. A port needed a big labor supply to handle the peaks, but on an average day the demand for workers was much smalle
... See moreMarc Levinson • The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author
Before long, through service was established between New York City and Knight’s Key, Florida. Mondays through Saturdays, frigid Northern passengers could board the New York and Florida Special at 2:10 P.M. of a murky and snowbound Manhattan afternoon. At 7:30 A.M. on the third day following, they could wake up in a berth of a Pullman car and raise
... See moreLes Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
In fact, taking together all that I learned from him of seamanship, of the history of sailors' lives, of practical wisdom, and of human nature under new circumstances,—a great history from which many are shut out,—I would not part with the hours I spent in the watch with that man for any given hours of my life passed in study and social intercourse
... See moreRichard Henry Dana • Two Years Before the Mast
He was careful, however, not to betray his disappointment to the men, and he cheerfully supervised the routine of readying the ship for the long winter’s night ahead.
Alfred Lansing • Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
