Word: cunarders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost a half-century old is the U. S. law which prohibits foreign vessels from transporting passengers and cargo between U. S. ports, reserving this coastwise traffic for U. S. ships. Last year National Tours (Manhattan) struck upon the idea of chartering Cunard liners, conducting cruises-to-nowhere out of New York harbor and back. Fear of U. S. law forced a change in its plans, caused the cruise ships to put in briefly at Halifax to establish a foreign contact and technically break the voyage's continuity. Last week the American Steamship Owners Association was vastly upset...
...years ago the Cunard caused a large stir by cutting into the New York-Havana trade of U. S. lines. At worst that was only a violation of trade agreements. But last week Herbert Brooks Walker, A. S. O. A. president, spoke darkly of invoking the Federal coastwise law against the Cunard to block its new scheme. Lacking apparently was any clear-cut ruling as to whether a continuous voyage in and out of the same U. S. port by a foreign vessel was the same as transportation between U. S. ports and therefore a violation...
Last week in Manhattan arrived Sir Percy Bates, Cunard's board chairman. His board, he said, had studied the legal aspect of cruises-to-nowhere; he was confident no hindrance could be raised...
...Cunard Passage. With a big ship abuilding and profits down from 1929's $4,000,000 to $93.000, last week directors of Cunard Steamship Co., Ltd. passed the dividend on common snares, said they have cut salaries. The new ship will be 73,000-tons, to cost $30,000,000, is being built on the Clyde. It is now known merely as "No. 534," the contractor's name...
...give up hope was lean, grey-haired John Reynard Todd of the engineering firm of Todd Robertson Todd.* In New York his firm is responsible for the much admired Graybar and Cunard buildings. John Reynard Todd is a great & good friend of John Davison Rockefeller Jr. A qualified lawyer, he is an able pleader. Last May he had many interviews with Mr. Rockefeller, with Merlin Hall Aylesworth, president of National Broadcasting Co. and with officials of Radio Corp. of America and Radio-Keith-Orpheum. In June it was announced that the great project would go forward, not as an opera...