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...after another, the Cunard Line's Britannic, Mauretania and Saxonia and the Canadian Pacific's Empress of Australia and Empress of Scotland missed their sailing dates as a result of the seamen's and stewards' demand for a shorter work week-44 hours as opposed to what they call the 56-70 hours now demanded of them. As the week drew on, the strikers immobilized the biggest prize of all, the Queen Mary. Fuming with indignation because the shipowners had pooh-poohed the likelihood of a strike until they were comfortably settled in their cabins, hundreds...
...tourist runs are reserved from 60 to 90 days ahead. Ocean liners are even more popular. The U.S. Lines' 1,700-passenger United States and 950-passenger America are booked solid for all tourist and cabin classes until August. For the critical eastbound season (June 1-July 15), Cunard's Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth have not a single cabin available...
Whatever the cost or inconvenience of a European trip, many an American feels that it is something he has to have. Says a Cunard official: "The travel industry has now become as big as General Motors. These days, if a person has a car and a washing machine, he has to have a trip to Europe...
Died. Sir Robert Beaufin Irving, 77, trained-in-sail ex-commodore of the Cunard White Star line, captain of the Queen Mary in 1938 when she broke the eastbound and westbound transatlantic speed records established by the French liner Normandie a year earlier; in Carlisle, England...
Photographers' flashbulbs and shopkeepers' eyes popped in happy unison as the sleek green Cunard luxury liner Caronia tied up at a Kobe pier side. "A particularly wonderful group," clucked an official of the Japan Travel Bureau as a long line of Helen Hokinson ladies and balding gentlemen picked their way down the gangplank. "I should estimate that they came 95% to buy souvenirs and only 5% for sightseeing-a tedious business anyway...