Word: cunarder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bestselling Author Edna (Giant) Ferber, fresh from a tour of European cities, eased into home port aboard the Cunard liner, Queen Elizabeth, as it docked in New York last week. Even before setting foot ashore, she had some harsh words to say about the city: "New York is the dirtiest city in the world ... a once exquisitely beautiful woman who has declined into a dirty, degraded, blowzy person ... a scab on the face of our country." The streets, she added, were covered with garbage, "and I don't mean dirt...
Early in the week there were two near-disasters that gave pier officials the jitters, threatened to close the port altogether. The 6,535-ton American Export freighter Extavia smashed into its Brooklyn pier, leaving a 100-foot section of jagged wreckage. Then the Cunard Lines' green-hulled Caronia knifed through 30 feet of ten-inch concrete and rammed right up to Pier 90's shed before it could be stopped and worked into its slip (estimated damage to the two piers...
When the 81,237-ton Queen Mary made its way slowly up the Hudson toward the Cunard piers, all Manhattan watched breathlessly. The Mary, after a gingerly pass at Pier 90, finally muddled through, corning to rest amidships on the "knuckle'' (pier end), and calling on the white-collar dockhands to pull her in. The U.S. Lines' America followed the Queen Mary's lead, pivoted in after 55 minutes...
...named Dominick Genova, was getting out of prison. Genova went to the waterfront, too, and witnessed the meteoric rise of slim, ham-handed Mickey Bowers-boss of the I.L.A.'s "pistol local," which today dominates the great piers of the French Line, the United States Lines and the Cunard Steamship...
...seemed almost a foregone conclusion that she would exceed the mark of 3 days 20 hr. 42 min. set in 1938 by the Cunard liner Queen Mary on the run between Ambrose Lightship and Bishop Rock on the southwest coast of England. But merely nibbling an hour or so off the record would mean little. Ships like the Lusitania and the old Mauretania had guaranteed a 4½day crossing in the early 1900s. The Normandie and the two British Queens had cut it to four days in the 1930s. If she was worth the toil, treasure and time...