Subway Co-Founder Fred DeLuca Dies
Subway co-founder Fred DeLuca, who as a teenager opened a Connecticut sandwich shop that would become the world’s largest restaurant chain, died Monday evening at the age of 67 after a fight with leukemia, the company said Tuesday. After his cancer diagnosis in 2013, the chain’s billionaire co-founder had stayed on as chief executive, saying last year he had no plans to retire and would remain “90 percent involved” in the chain’s...
Port Lore: Whaling, Pizza and a Perfect Storm
Providence, R.I. — New England’s ports are reinventing themselves to compete with one another and from larger ones, but they were once legendary. From one of the world’s great whaling ports to the Navy’s first submarine base and the city featured in The Perfect Storm, here is a look at their lore: Whaling in New Bedford One of the world’s great whaling ports of the 19th century, New Bedford, Mass., became wealthy as its whaling fleet...
