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Elected. Sir Percy Elly Bates, G.B.E., 50; to be Cunard Steamship Co.'s board chairman, succeeding Sir Thomas Royden, retired...
Manhattan reporters went down to the imposing Cunard Building in lower Broadway last week to have a look at the elder and distinguished statesman brother of famed onetime Australian tennis champion Norman Brookes...
...controls the White Star. Not without soundest reasons did he scrap the world's longest ocean liner keel. When the Oceanic was laid down, super-size rather than superspeed was the boast of luxury ships. For 22 years the trans-Atlantic speed record had been held unmolested by Cunard's gallant Mauretania while ship after ship surpassed her in size. Last month, however, Germany's new Bremen beat the old Mauretania (TIME, July 29), set a new trans-Atlantic liner record, suddenly made speed once more the public's test in judging a liner...
...White Star Line announced revised plans for the 60,000 ton Oceanic, whose keel, half laid, lies rusting in a Belfast yard. The U. S. Lines, freed somewhat of the shackles of Prohibition, planned two super-Leviathans to steam 32 knots (38 m.p.h.). Similar detailed announcements came from the Cunard and Italian lines...
...Saxony the whole Fatherland throbbed and thrilled as croaking loud speakers announced that any moment now there would sail from Bremerhaven on her maiden voyage the giant S. S. Bremen-a supership built to wrest from Britain the trans-Atlantic speed record held for the past 22 years by Cunard's famed Mauretania...