Word: cunard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Planes swooped and circled outside Southampton as the huge Queen Elizabeth saluted her older sister with deep-throated blasts. Some 700 Cunard White Star guests, including a covey of admirals and a duke, were aboard to enjoy the ocean breezes in new super-deckchairs and gaze greedily at the shop windows in the promenade. The rich goods on display were held under customs seal until the Mary's first overseas passage this week, but there were free champagne, cocktails, candy and cigarets for everybody and a larder full of food, the like of which Britons had not seen...
...Hartley Shawcross, who had given up all hope of catching the Queen Elizabeth, realized that the big ship was still at her pier when he cast his last vote. He telephoned the Cunard Line, made a flying trip to his hotel, packed, hustled to the dock. In the scramble he forgot his passport. His secretary got it to him, in a basket pulled up on a line, just as the ship was moving...
Died. Sir Percy Elly ("Chin") Bates, 67, long-jawed, longtime chairman of the Cunard White Star Line, who advocated, planned and finally saw constructed the giant liners Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth ; of a heart attack, a few hours before he was to board the Queen Elizabeth for her maiden peacetime voyage (see BUSINESS) ; in London...
Married. Harry P. Davison, 48, Morgan-partner-son of Morgan-partner Henry P. Davison; and Eleanor Sparks Martin, fortyish, daughter of Sir Ashley Sparks, K.B.E., Cunard White Star Line resident director in the U.S.; he for the second time; she for the third; in East Norwich...
...first-class fare was higher than Cunard's own prewar rate (about $287), only $15 less than the present air fare from New York to London. (If the Civil Aeronautics Board approves, airlines will soon cut their New York-to-London fare to $325.) If Cunard's fares were any indication of what other luxury liners would charge, airlines could confidently expect to capture much of the first-class travel. Cunard apparently hoped to fill the luxury staterooms of its Queens with passengers who do not like to fly. But airlines were confident that price would tell, that...