Word: cunarder
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...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...
...record was held briefly in 1852 by the Baltic, 2,664-ton sidewheeler which averaged 13 knots. Cunarders profess they are unconcerned by the new threat. Sniffed Cunard Chairman Fred Bates: "Speed for the sake of speed has not entered into our reckoning...
Manhattan dockworkers, who have seen nearly everything in their day, gaped last week as the Cunard liner Parthia began unloading her cargo. Out of the hold swung three new red double-decker London motorbuses; their sides were plastered with ads for English cigarettes, cars and marmalade: their Dunlop "tyres" were heavy-treaded. And No. 11, the leader of the big reds, still bore her route markings: "BUCKINGHAM PALACE RD. WESTMINSTER ABBEY, CHARING X (for Charing Cross), STRAND, ST. PAUL'S, LIVERPOOL STREET...
...notorious overnight as the wild man of British photography. In a few years puckish Cecil had captivated a good share of the rich society-photography trade in New York as well as in London, and had published a book of his photographs. One of Cecil's subjects, Lady Cunard, was so displeased with the book that she set her copy afire in the midst of a luncheon party, then seized a red-hot poker and ran it through from cover to cover, proclaiming: "He's a low fellow, and it's a terrible book...