Many relevant corporate records have been destroyed. The early growth of containerization was nurtured by the Port of New York Authority (now the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey), but many of that agency’s records were destroyed in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center ...
Walter, forty-seven, was a railroad man, a laborer for the Boston & Maine. Bertha, two years younger, had spent her working life at a laundry. Their new two-story home on Jefferson Street, built in 1722, would serve as more than just a place to live. It offered a way for a working-class co...