Word: cunarder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cunard White Star Line, which prides itself that its Queens are the fastest ships in transatlantic service, last week took the lead in something else. It announced a thumping increase in fares. Sir Percy E. Bates, Cunard board chairman, said that when the Queen Elizabeth begins peacetime service this fall, the minimum rate for first-class passage will be "on the order of $360, perhaps more...
Five Bars in Helsinki. Freddy himself was only 16 when he committed his first crime against classical music. He and some fellow high-school boys had played their way to Europe on a Cunard liner. Later, in Helsinki, playing at a hotel, they heard that Jean Sibelius would be a dinner guest that night. They hurriedly worked up a ragtime version of Sibelius' Valse Triste. Sibelius heard five bars of it, and stalked heavily from the room. Says Freddy now: "That's one reason I've never attempted to do anything with Sibelius...
Gene Fowler (Timber Line; Good Night, Sweet Prince, etc.). who once, in his maverick days, described himself as "an American peasant," is now an independent movie producer, and lives in a four-bedroom house of "West Los Angeles baroque" which, he says, looks like a Cunard liner. He used to write Hollywood movie scripts at $2.750 a week. Before that, as managing editor of the old New York American, he liked to lean back in his editorial chair and play an accordion to drown out the roaring of the Hearst press. Earlier still, as a wild young newspaperman in Denver...
Some 3,000 civilians sailed from Manhattan for Europe last week. The Cunard White Star Line's Queen Mary took out 1,228; the graceful old Aquitania (probably the only four-stacker remaining afloat) carried 483; the Holland-America Line's Nieuw Amsterdam had 500 aboard...
...great Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth approached New York Harbor with a captured Nazi flag flying at her main mast, an effect achieved by laughing, shouting soldiers. Manhattan's excitable garment workers threw tons of paper and cloth shreds into the streets. But elsewhere across the nation there was little public demonstration...