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...shipmasters who have viewed with articulate alarm the "cruises to nowhere" sponsored by foreign lines, last week viewed with something akin to horror a new policy of Cunard Steamship Co. Cunard passengers would not be carried to "nowhere," but they would be carried elsewhere for hardly any cash fare at all.* Under an arrangement with Morris Plan Corp. of America, industrial moneylenders, Cunard inaugurated a system of installment plan transportation that would enable the wanderlusty to go to Europe for as little as $34 down...
Offering the plan as "a panacea for the ills from which the shipping industry has been suffering for the last two years," Cunard revealed that the only requirements for installment-plan transportation will be a good character and 25% of the fare. The rest is payable monthly at the rate of as little as $10 per month. All Morris Plan banks will participate in the scheme, will waive such customary requirements applied to loan seekers as in-dorsers, payment for investigation, surcharges. Only charge will be 6% interest. Last week's newspapers carried Cunard advertisements with the slogan: TRAVEL...
...other line (except Anchor, a Cunard subsidiary) hastened to follow Cunard's lead to boost travel traffic. U. S. companies continued their attacks on the "nowhere" cruises from New York to New York. Senator White of Maine had two bills before the Senate to halt the practice as injurious to U. S. shipping. U. S. seamen. He rallied supporters at a hearing before the Commerce Committee. Said David E. Grange, president of the Marine Cooks & Stewards Union: "A sailor on the beach is just like a defeated United States Senator...
...Cunard's short cruises from New York always stop at Nova Scotia, the Bahamas, or the West Indies...
...take up the slack in its regular passenger traffic. Last week 260 cruises planned for the 1931-32 season proved to be too many. Seventeen trips were cancelled, more were likely to be abandoned later. Withdrawn were seven West Indies sailings of Red Star's Belgenland, one each of Cunard's Carinthia and Caledonia, two Mediterranean voyages of White Star's Homeric and one of the same company's Britannic...