Word: cunarders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Westinghouse, makes about 25% of its money by maintaining the elevators it installs. A battery of 58 Otises hum up and down the Empire State Building; Otis elevators lift planes aboard the carriers Saratoga and Independence and promenaders aboard such liners as the France, the Leonardo da Vinci and Cunard's Queens, raise Atlas and Titan missiles into firing positions at missile sites...
...aboard the liner Aquitania in 1926, a group of British industrialists traveling together decided to merge four struggling chemical firms into a new company called Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. In a surprising departure from British formality, they scribbled out the new company's compact on a sheet of Cunard Line writing paper. Over the years since then I.C.I, has become Britain's Du Pont...
Despite the considerable competition of the queenly Cunarders, the chic French liners and the efficient U.S. Lines, Italy dreams fondly of the day when its liners will dominate transatlantic passenger service. The state-owned Italian Line, which already ranks second on the North Atlantic run (after Cunard), is working hard to make that dream a reality. Hit by the loss of 31 of its 37 vessels in World War II and the national tragedy of the Andrea Doria disaster in 1956, it came back by building the Cristojoro Colombo and the Leonardo da Vinci in the 19505, six months...
...Thomson, a collection of Thomson aides and 138 guests, all from the upper registers of British business: John Bedford of Debenhams (department stores), H. E. Darvill of Barclays Bank, Whitney Straight of Rolls-Royce, Henry Lazell of Beecham, along with representatives of Crosse & Blackwell, Unilever, Dunlop Rubber, Guinness, Cunard...
Retirement was still five years away, but her admirers were already making plans for the old girl's sunset years. Britain's Holiday Camper Billy Butlin offered $2,800,000 to take her to Penzance, Land's End, Torquay-somewhere on the south coast of England. Cunard Chairman Sir John Brocklebank seemed to have the Caribbean in mind. Wherever she winds up, in Penzance as a floating Holiday Camp, or in the Caribbean as a luxury boatel, the Queen Mary, 26-year-old doyenne of the Cunard fleet, would be in good hands. And besides, getting there...