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...Sept. 26, Queen Mary is to swing a bottle at the vast bulk of Cunard-White Star's new liner No. 534. Last week ship- yard officials thought they could find a safe bottle of low pressure champagne but said that if unfavorable winds hold back the tide on the appointed day there may not be enough water in the Clyde to launch their monster. Launching or no launching. Queen Mary, resolute as King Canute, planned last week to crack her bottle on Sept. 26, will cry "I christen thee Victoria...
...profits and Mr. Franklin has parted with most of his foreign ships. In 1927 he sold White Star back to the British for $35,000,000. Because more than $11,000,000 is still owing on that deal he unsuccessfully tried to block the merger of White Star and Cunard in a London Court (TIME, March 26). He has sold 28 of Leyland's 32 ships. Meanwhile he has brought new lines into his fold, acquiring an interest in Baltimore Mail Line; tying up with Roosevelt Line by inducing Kermit Roosevelt, Vincent Astor and friends to buy into...
...foreign ships-Belgen-land, Pennland, Westernland, Minnetonka, Miunewaska, Norwegian, Nubian, Dakotian, Nitonian-were all for sale. (Two days later the Nitonian was sold.) Moreover on July 1 I. M. M. will lose its job as agent for White Star as a result of that line's consolidation with Cunard. Further facts brought out last week...
...Clydebank, Scotland there was bunting last week. Policemen on the corners smiled right round the chin straps of their helmets. Down the cobbled street came the sharp squeal of bagpipes. Four hundred workmen, their tool bags slung over their shoulders, tramped behind the pipers and gaily sang "The Cunarder's restarting!" to the tune of "The Campbells are Coming." Through the gates of the John Brown Shipyard they went, and other workmen, busy on the 8,000-ton motorship for the New Zealand trade and several other ships, cheered them as they passed to a great hull which...
...construction again with money provided by the British Government. The 400 men are just a beginning. Soon 3,800 workmen will be employed and other jobs for other thousands are still to come. Money has been definitely promised, too, for the construction of a sistership so that the merged Cunard-White Star can offer a regular weekly service from both New York and Southampton with its giants...