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Their ships have carried practically no jute. The Isthmian Line, potent ship subsidiary of the U. S. Steel Corp., have carried four cargoes a year, the Cunard-Brocklebank Line two each month, and the Ellerman- Bucknell Line (oldest in the trade) the rest. They had old, excellent contacts with the chief U. S. importers of jute-the Bemis Bag Co., Ludlow Manufacturing Associates, Chase Bag Co., American Manufacturing...
...considered inimical by any one interested, for the decks to be cleared. . . ." What was such inimical action or by whom done, he, prudent, did not state. But it is well known in Montreal, as in Liverpool, that Canadian Pacific operators were vexed at the recent announcement of the Cunard Line that the Cunarders Athenia, Antonia, Ansonia, and Letitia would be reconditioned to carry only tourist third class and third class passengers (a type not very fussy) between English and Canadian ports. Thus the Cunard Line would attract some of the great Canadian Pacific traffic of immigrants from England to Canada...
White Star Plans. However, as Mr. Bruce said this, the White Star Line's London office announced plans for a new liner approximately 1,000 feet long, bigger than its Majestic and swifter than the Cunard Mauretania. As soon as one of the slips at Queen's Island, Belfast, is vacant, the new ship's keel will be laid...
...Cunard Plans. The Cunard Line is also planning a thousand-foot ship for transatlantic service, to be built on the Clyde or the Tyne. Company officials held a secret meeting in London last week. Their general passenger manager in the U. S., Harold P. Borer, attended. Said he: "It should be possible to fill ships of any size which would be placed on the Atlantic...
Last week, passengers on the 20-year-old Cunard Liner Mauretania, swiftest pride of British fleets, found themselves in Manhattan only a little more than five days after leaving England-"second fastest boat crossing of all time." The Mauretania's 1924 record of five days, three & one-third hours has never been bettered. Before the Mauretania, new speed champions were built at the rate of twelve every 50 years. But there has been talk, which had become more specific by last week, that great wharves were about to be built at Montauk Point (at the easternmost tip of Long...