Word: cunard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan last week the 80,000-ton, 200,000-horsepower Queen Mary strove to wrest the Harold Keates Hales Trophy for transatlantic speed from the 83,000-ton 160,000-horsepower Normandie which in June 1935 set the record: 4 days, 3 hours, 28 minutes (average 30.31 knots). The Cunard White Star liner rounded Bishop's Rock this week to win in 3 days, 23 hours, 57 minutes (average 30.63 knots) She can thus hoist the "Blue Ribbon," take the Hales Trophy from the French liner, advertise herself as "the world's fastest ship...
With the King and Mrs. Simpson were Lord and Lady Brownlow and the most Bohemian of Britain's fashionable hostesses, Lady Cunard, the rich onetime Maude Alice Burke who married into the Cunard family and now calls herself "Emerald" Cunard. Her daughter Nancy is renowned for the handsome young Negro bucks she has introduced into select British circles...
...Cunard-White Star Line is going to name it the King George...
...encouraged the Covent Garden Opera season by leasing a box, though he attended no operas up to last week. May 16 saw privately his first stage performance since he came to the Throne, the last act of Storm In a Teacup presented in the home of Lady Cunard. May 20 inspected the Coldstream Guards at Aldershot, shouting in at the mess hall door "Any complaints?" May 25 inspected the Queen Mary prior to her maiden voyage, flying from his snuggery, Fort Belvedere at Sunningdale, to Southampton and back to Sunningdale, while Queen Mary went by train. May 28 proclamation that...
TIME erred in stating that the Queen Mary's promenade deck is 570 yd. around. Cunard White Star figures that approximately four laps around it make a mile. Length of Burghley's 58-sec. run was therefore approximately a quarter-mile, for which the world's indoor record is 49.6 sec. Not only was Lord Burghley handicapped by the sharp turns, but also by full evening dress: tails, stiff shirt, pumps...