Word: cunard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that last week's decision will help them when their suits come up in the U. S. Supreme Court. The Commons- ¶Weighed every carefully chosen word uttered by Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain as he consented to allude at last to the long-rumored merger of Cunard and White Star...
...Negotiations," the Chancellor said, "have reached a stage at which the Government feels fully justified in assuming that an effective merger of the North Atlantic fleets of the Cunard and White Star Lines will become an accomplished fact at an early date. It is the intention of the Government in that event shortly to lay before the House proposals for furnishing the necessary financial facilities for completion of the new Cunard liner" -scheduled to exceed the French liner Normandie as "largest and fastest liner in the world" (TIME, Nov. 7, 1932). ¶Adjourned over the holidays...
Died. Russell Henderson Henderson, 75, retired Scotch-born shipping tycoon, son of the late Founder William Henderson of Anchor Line (now controlled by Cunard), cousin of Great Britain's "Uncle Arthur" Henderson; of heart failure; in Paterson...
...Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson in France. Last week Cherbourg's new roadstead covered 3,500 acres of 42 to 46 ft. water. It was already fit to dock most transatlantic liners. The North German Lloyd's Europa & Bremen, the White Star Line's Majestic, the Cunard Line's Aquitania & Berengaria will continue to use tenders until the flanking moles are finished early next year...
Notably absent and unmentioned at last week's ceremony was the heroine for whom Southampton's mighty new bed was made, the Cunard Line's unfinished 73,000-ton liner "No. 534." It lay last week in its Clydebank, Scotland yards, unfinished for lack of a Government subsidy. Designed to make 30 knots, cross the Atlantic in four days flat to beat the North German Lloyd's Bremen & Europa, "No. 534" last rang with hammers two years ago. But at a luncheon after the ceremony last week Cunard's plow-chinned Board Chairman Sir Percy...