Permanent Contract File

A Titanic survival scene labels one character Contracting and the other Mission partners after contract award. The image leaves the audience to supply the joke about unequal burdens after award. A 2023 bump is retained separately from the original post date. SOURCE DISCUSSION — transcribed original comments 2023-12-17 — Dan Cary: Bump Coverage: 1 displayed and 1 visible comment retained in Most relevant view; no claim of exhaustive historical discussion. Thread grouping follows source thread-root links; unknown immediate reply parents are not inferred. Dates preserve the displayed day, with timezone unknown. The heading, alt text and opening historical explanation are AI-assisted editorial interpretation. The original caption, preserved image renditions and transcribed discussion are source material. Public images are metadata-stripped display derivatives of Facebook-served files; the original upload files and edit history were not established.