Word: cunard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest shipping lines, thereby saving from ruin not only the lines but also the big hanks which were heavily tied up in them. He it was who rushed to completion in record time the great Rex and Conte di Savoia at a period when Britain's Cunard Line was forced to abandon work on its 73,000-ton liner and the French Line dallied with its new super-Ile de France. Last year genial Count Ciano paid out 275,000,000 lire of Il Duce's revenues in ship subsidies. Since the S. S. Savannah first ploughed...
Charles Tillyer Trego, who made The Isle of Paradise, first saw Bali when he was working in Cunard Line's advertising department, preparing advertisements for world" cruises. He went back with a camera, found it easy to bribe natives with rings, shirts, hardware, to perform. One mishap occurred: 15 Balinese, tipsy on mild wine and carrying a cremation tower, ran over him and his camera. His picture, the leisurely record of a six-month visit, is beautifully photographed and has the warm, informal authenticity that most travelogs lack. Good shot: a Balinese youth (Trego's valet, who refused...
...Actor Robeson admitted he hoped to marry an English society woman, denied it was Negrophile Nancy Cunard." (TIME, July...
Reader Weitzenkorn, onetime editor of Bernarr Macfadden's late pornoGraphic, is sophisticated. In TIME'S judgment, not everyone is aware of what he implies : that Singer Robeson, self-respecting, would never dream of having to do with blatant Negrophile Cunard. Fact remains, Singer Robeson did make the denial as reported...
...When the Cunard Line's oil-burning liner Scythia slid into New York Harbor last week, coal companies perked up, oil companies were cast down and a dead inventor was remembered. Instead of oil, a black turbid liquid had been pouring through one set of her fuel pipes, burning with sudden fierceness when it reached the combustion area under the boiler. First commercial company ever to use colloidal fuel, the Cunard Line last week called its experiment a complete success. Ignored for eleven years, colloidal fuel was news at last...