"John was used to reporting to himself," recalls James Janning, Harbor's chief operating officer.
Many significant trading sites were on the Queen Charlotte Islands, including Cloak Bay, Masset, Skidegate, Cumshewa, Skedans, and Houston Stewart Channel, known as "Coyah's Harbor", after Chief Koyah.
In 1910, with the state deepening the barge canal linking upstate to the Great Lakes and with New York City still the nation's leading manufacturing center, financing was approved to transform Jamaica Bay into what was described as "the world's chief harbor".
The city's chief harbor, Elliott Bay, is part of Puget Sound, which makes the city an oceanic port.
The sea traders and colonizers were a major force in the ancient world from about 3000 B.C.E. to 538 B.C.E., yet their chief harbors, located at Sidon and Tyre in Lebanon, vanished from sight long ago.
"Maybe I'm biased because I grew up here, but I hate the idea that Staten Island gets associated with a lot of negativity," Lynn Kelly, Snug Harbor's president and chief executive, said.
"The global economic storm may be abating, but airlines have not yet found a safe harbor," said Giovanni Bisignani, chief executive of the association, which includes 230 of the world's largest carriers.
But Mr. Larrabee and Joseph J. Seebode, chief of harbor programs for the Army Corps of Engineers, said that they have an additional, new permit request to consolidate this dredging with their plan to go all the way to the 50-foot depths needed to accommodate the larger container ships.
How it all works is a bit complicated, but according to Harbor co-founder and chief product officer Arisa Amano, Harbor's first project is what it's calling the Regulated Token (or "R-Token") Standard, an open-source project that addresses the compliance problem for secondary trading.
Eric Smidt, chairman and chief executive of Harbor Freight Tools, has sold an estate in the desirable Beverly Park area of Beverly Hills for $39.9 million.
In September 1929 Casey was assigned to the Rivers and Harbors Section of the Office of the Chief of Engineers in Washington, DC.
