Word: cunarders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Built by a rich automotive inventor on the original foundations of the Larchmont Shore Club stables, it looks like the Castle of Otranto, reaching high with turrets and towers and a cupola. It also looks as easy to clean as the lower Bowery, and Mrs. Kerr moans that a Cunard liner could run back and forth across the Atlantic all winter on the oil it takes to heat the place...
...Cunard liner Sylvania lay alongside Southampton's Ocean Ter minal ready to sail for New York. Jus before sailing time, 200 members of her 440-man crew walked off the gangplank in a wildcat strike for higher wages. Cap tain William Law called the passenger together in the tourist lounge. "Do you want to sail?" he asked. Yes, shouted th passengers. "All right," said Captain Law "I'm woefully short of catering people Working hours are from 7 in the morning until 9:30 at night. You'll make abou $22 a week. There...
...Canadian Pacific Co.'s Empress of Britain had to cancel their voyages, stranding 3,000 passengers-mostly U.S. tourists. In all, 80 British and Commonwealth ships had to cancel out, and ferry service across the Channel was halted. Three British ships were tied up in the Great Lakes. Cunard and Canadian Pacific set up emergency airlifts to shuttle the stranded passengers to the U.S. and Canada...
...afloat, with a cruising speed of 27½ knots, air conditioning throughout, and closed-circuit television for passengers while the ship is at sea. Designed with an aluminum superstructure to save weight, and engines aft to give passengers more deck space, the liner will carry as many passengers as Cunard's Queen Elizabeth. It will have almost three times as many tourist as first-class passengers (1,650 to 600) to entice budget-conscious travelers...