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An exhibit of Starkist
memorabilia. Starkist closed its Terminal Island plant in 1985
due to "high labor costs compared to its Puerto Rico and American Samoa
canneries," according to the company website.
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Painting of the Queen Mary by Russel White.
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The model used in the 1972 movie
The Poseidon Adventure.
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In 1949, engineer Otis Barton
went to a depth of 4,500 feet in his benthoscope (>). In
the late 1920s Barton had worked with naturalist William Beebe on the
more famous bathysphere, which in 1934 went to a then record depth of
3,028 feet.
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(Note the typo).
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