Word: cunard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Largesse In the Prince of Wales suite on board the Cunarder Berengaria, Sanders A. Wertheim, president of Burns Brothers, coal dealers, heard the stewards bawling: "All ashore that's going ashore." His cabin, the most expensive space the Cunard line can sell on any of its ships, was littered with candy, flowers, books, tokens of goodwill left by the employes who had come down to see him off. Now these employes were hurrying down the gangplank. Sanders Wertheim could see them beaming at him, packed inside a rope on the pier. Ah, for a gesture, a gesture proper...
...week when the P. & O. balance sheet flashed over the cables. For him spoke his son-in-law, the Hon. Alexander Shaw, a Director of the Bank of England and of the P. & O.: "1925 was the worst year for British shipping on record." Corroborative statistics released by the Cunard Line show a profit for that proverbially well managed concern of only $1,600,000 for 1925. The truth is that the supply of freight bottoms has so disastrously exceeded the demand that freight rates are no higher than in 1913, whereas freight costs have nearly doubled. A pound...
Died. Sir William Corry, 67, a director of the Cunard Line; in London. Cunard and Anchor Line steamers carried their flags at half-mast...
Long acquainted with George Hiram and rather fond of him for his past courtesies, the Cunard Line last week announced a new kind of trip abroad, for him alone. Perhaps, for steamship companies are very understanding, a special trip for Mrs. G. H. will be thought up later. But for the present, her husband is invited to go to Scotland, stay at the best hotels, play any that he chooses of 48 golf courses (riding to and from the links by motor) and return in five weeks, all for a flat sum (unstated in the advertisement). The only extra expenditures...
...addition, individual tours will be arranged for twelve courses in London suburbs. Here the Cunard service is especially valuable. Most Scottish courses are public; any man may pay and play. The greens fees are in shillings. Near London, introduction is essential, the fees in pounds...