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Each vessel carried “Northern” as its first name, for instance Northern Light. And each embodied the same philosophy of massive tonnages and low rates that Hill and others were applying to rail transport.

the largest longship ever found—thirty-two metres long, with a single-watch crew of eighty that could have been doubled for war. Dating to the early eleventh century, it is of the dimensions the sagas give for the highest rank of royal warships.

Thus, with Farley’s open cooperation, the trio of Hill, Kittson, and Smith began probing to see what sort of offer might be sufficient to interest the Dutch bondholders, who were understandably nervous about their jeopardized investment.

Consigning and expediting freight, he naturally learned quickly who was doing what and how things worked. He learned, for instance, how the steamship companies could price-gouge local consumers because of the lack of winter service.

Oakland had never hosted a containership, but it immediately began to promote itself as a future containerport. Nutter dreamed up a lease very different from the norm of so many cents per ton: Sea-Land would pay a minimum fee high enough to cover the cost of building its terminal and would pay more as its tonnage rose, but beyond a certain point th

The Hills, and the other GN investors, were about to reap a dual harvest: from the rich mines themselves, and from freight rates levied on the massive tonnages of ore hauled from the Mesabi to Lake Superior.

Great Slave Lake, where it was transferred onto lake barges for the 150-mile trip across this huge lake to Fort Providence. When the supplies reached Fort Providence, they were loaded