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...next summer, the United States Lines will put its superliner-now 70% completed-on the transatlantic run. Third largest passenger ship in the world (behind the Cunard's two Queens), the United States will carry 2,000 passengers and a 1,000-man crew at better than 30 knots, and her builders think she can crack the Queen Mary's transatlantic record of 3 days 20 hr. 42 min. Said Vice Admiral Edward L. Cochrane, Federal Maritime Board chairman: "For the first time in many decades we are playing again in the major league of the North Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Back in the Major League | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...Colonel Sidney Breese, an Illinois prairie lawyer who later became U.S. Senator. Not till 16 years later did Senator Stephen A. Douglas win a grant of 2,595,600 acres from the Government-the first to any railroad-and persuade Eastern and British financiers (including Gladstone, Stephen Cunard and Economist Richard Cobden) to put up $9,000,000 to construct a 705-mile "Y"-shaped road. It stretched north from Cairo, and forked to East Dubuque and Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Mid-America's Main Line | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

Touted as a rival of Cunard's two Queens, the $70 million United States was designed primarily as a naval vessel. She will be fitted to carry 14,000 troops at 30 knots (fast enough to outrun submarines). Also marked for completion as troopships last week were three passenger-cargo liners being built by the American President Lines, the 13,000-ton Presidents Jackson, Adams, and Hayes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost Leader | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...When the Cunard Lines' 45,600-ton Aquitania steamed majestically into New York Harbor on her maiden voyage in June 1914, admiring New Yorkers called her "the most beautiful ship in the world." Built at a cost of more than $10 million, the four-stacked* Aquitania, with her nine decks, and quarters for 2,870 passengers, marked a new peak in luxurious ocean travel. But at first she had little time to show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sailor's Rest | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...trip a fortnight from Southampton to New York, carried some 700,000 passengers. Recently the old ship, still in her stripped-down war condition, has been carrying immigrants to Canada. Last week, tied up at the Southampton dock after 35 years' service, the Aquitania was retired. Said a Cunard official, with never a tear for old Grannie: "It's unsatisfactory to run a liner longer than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sailor's Rest | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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