Word: cunard
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...attract the patriotic fervor to their products that shipbuilders and steamship operators do to theirs. If, for example, British Austin Motor Co.. Ltd. should be forced to suspend "Baby Austin" production the average Briton would not feel called upon to do anything about it. But last month when Cunard Line felt it necessary to stop work on its 73,000-ton No. 534, British patriots reacted as to a national calamity. Retired colonels, war widows and schoolboys sent in small sums to Cunard Line; the Government was put under pressure to offer financial assistance, and the Line promised...
Last week Prime Minister MacDonald tried to weasel out of aiding Cunard. "The trouble is not to get the Cunarder built," he declared, "but to get the com-pany to believe that when she is built she can be run with some chance of paying her way. There would be no difficulty in getting money for the building if there were any prospect of getting the interest repaid and the loans refunded...
This was indignantly denied by a Cunard official to reporters of London's Daily Express. "It is incorrect." snapped Cunard's spokesman, "to say that the com-pany do not believe that a ship of the size of the 534 could pay her way. The ships paying the best in the Atlantic service are the large ones. . . . The suspension of work was because of the inability to obtain loans in the City at reasonable rates of interest...
...Army base pier at the foot of 58th Street, Brooklyn, to sail on the fastest transatlantic vessels in the world-the North German Lloyd's Bremen and Europa* Strapping big Heinrich Schuengel, who is for N. G. L. what humorous little Sir Thomas Ashley Sparks is for Cunard- resident U. S. director-had a chance to air his grievance before Counsel Samuel Seabury's legislative committee on municipal scandals. Smaller Lloyd liners use Pier No. 42, North River. For nine years, said Director Schuengel, the line tried to get larger accommodations in Manhattan for its big new ship...
...British Government, busy reducing expenses, made no visible move to aid Cunard last week, but the French Government continued its subsidy to the French Line which kept 1,500 men at work all week at St. Nazaire putting 55 tons of steel per day into the hull of the super-super-ship with which they will challenge Cunard's. (Both liners will be "faster than the fastest and larger than the largest" now extant.) Up to last week the French Line had put roughly three times more money than Cunard into actual construction, namely 300,000,000 francs null...