Word: cunarder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcing to Cunard shareholders the cessation of operations on "No. 534," which had already cost a million par pounds, long-jawed Board Chairman Sir Percy Elly Bates said: "To enable the company with financial responsibility to build ships it must at least earn the depreciation on the old ships [fixed by Cunard at ?675,000 a year]. This the company has not been able to do in this year for the first time in many years. The decline in passenger and freight traffic seems to have no limit...
...Named by his owner. William Woodward, for Sir Thomas Ashley Sparks, U. S. resident director of the Cunard Line. Mr. Woodward has also a horse Sir Andrew, named for one of his blackest, most bowlegged stablemen...
Divorced. Lady June Inverclyde, London music hall artist, from John Alan Burns, Lord Inverclyde (Cunard Steamship Co.); in Reno. Lady Inverclyde testified her husband insulted her friends, "was never entirely sober," said she would marry Lothar Mendes, cinema director. Lord Inverclyde remained in Scotland, shooting grouse...
...Canadian Pacific, and Costa Rican. The bank division lists the British banks, also Chartered Bank of India, Bank of Hongkong, National Bank of Egypt and others. Imperial Chemical heads the chemical group while the textiles include Celanese, Coats and Courtaulds. Industrials include Vickers (steel), De Havilland Aircraft, Imperial Airways, Cunard, Dunlop, Kreuger & Toll, Unilever, Swedish Match, British-American Tobacco ("Bats") and Imperial Tobacco ("Imps"). Favorite of the land shares is Sudan Plantations, great Government-subsidized cotton farms. Guinness and Allsopp lead the breweries...
Retired, Capt. Ernest Granville Diggle, commodore of the Cunard fleet, commander of the Aquitania; after 43 years...