Word: cunarder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into New York harbor one day last week steamed a chunky, single-funneled, single-masted liner with a cruiser stern. She was the British Cunard White Star Line's 13,700-ton ship Media, the first new liner to be built for the transatlantic service since the war. The British, although stalled in other industries, were losing no time getting their new merchant ships afloat...
...House Committee on Foreign Aid, which had drawn $125,000 and bought space on the Cunard Line's Queen Mary for its forthcoming trip abroad, lived through a bad few hours when the C.I.O. Maritime Committee accused committee members of breaking an eleven-year-old law. The law: Government officials or employees on Government business must travel on U.S. ships, or be denied travel expenses by the Comptroller General. After hasty research, the committee found that the Comptroller has no authority over money Congress appropriates for itself. The committee kept its Queen Mary reservations...
...north of her usual run, arrived in New York harbor the day after Britain declared war (Sept. 3, 1939). She was reported to have brought a cargo of gold worth $44,000,000. For six months she was berthed near her rival, the French liner Normandie. Dock rent cost Cunard...
After seven years of sail, he went into steam with the Cunard Line in 1910. In World War I, he served at Jutland, in H.M.S. Valiant, went back to Cunard when the war was over. He fondly remembers the Scythia, where he made the crew hop to their tasks. They gave him a handsome desk set when he left. Said the spokesman for the presentation committee: "You ran us hard, sir, but it's all in the way it's done...
When they gave him peacetime command of the Mary a few weeks ago, a spokesman for the Cunard Line said graciously: "You know, Captain, we've come to consider the Queen Mary as your ship." Replied Illingworth: "I've considered her my ship for over ten years...