Word: cunard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...across the Atlantic from Britain. At a meeting of British seamen, acid-tongued Laborite Emanuel Shinwell shouted defiantly last week: ". . . We can still hold up our heads. We can run our ships better. . . . America is not a great maritime nation." Week before, Sir Percy E. Bates, head of the Cunard White Star line, complained that the U.S. was getting set for shipping while British ships were ferrying U.S. troops home...
Prize Ship. The United States Lines and Britain's great Cunard White Star Ltd. both began maneuvering to obtain North German Lloyd's 50,000-ton, blue-ribbon liner Europa, found in fairly good condition. Neither wanted the Europa's sister ship, the Bremen, so badly damaged that she was considered a total loss...
Information, Please. Along Manhattan's shipping row on lower Broadway, shipping men were badgered for information about transatlantic passenger sailings and reservations. Britain's Cunard White Star, Ltd. cheerfully registered the names and addresses of prospective travelers, hoped to offer limited accommodations soon. Three deluxe, air-conditioned, 18,000 ton liners are under construction for the United States Lines, may be ready for service by Labor...
...given them were the dimensions of the ad, some of the first ads appeared chock-full of Container Corp. boxes. Paepcke added a second rule: no more boxes. Thus, many of the paintings in the show are as unrelated to Container Corp. as a Waugh seascape is to the Cunard Line...
...conducted the New York Philharmonic with such lively enthusiasm that at one concert he broke his braces and had to walk off the stage holding his trousers up with his hands. Within the year he was back in London. With the help of his close friend, U.S.-born Lady Cunard, he founded England's greatest contemporary orchestra, the London Philharmonic, whose principal backer he remains today...