Word: cunarders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Britain has threatened to refuse clearance for the American charter flights after June 15 in retaliation for American restrictions against Cunard Eagle, a British line. The United States Civil Aeronautics Board refused Cunard Eagle's application to operate unlimited chart flights on the grounds that it was a scheduled carrier since its West Indian subsidiaries operated regular flights to the United States...
...entice passengers into their empty cabins. Into New York Harbor last week cruised the Queen Mary with a novel come-on: 20 slot machines set up in the first-and cabin-class smoking rooms and the tourist lounge. All the way across the Atlantic, the "fruit machines" (as the Cunard Line labeled the one-armed bandits) did a brisk business. "The slot-machine area was the busiest place on the boat, busier even than the bar," reported Passenger Stanton Griffis, former U.S. Ambassador to Spain and Poland. "You couldn't fight your way to them...
...normal to expect that a Noel Coward show will be good. And when the curtain rises above the main hall of the Cunard steam-ship Coronia, the audience is really ready to "sail away." But for five scenes the show is stranded somewhere between the 52nd Street pier and Staten Island, and one begins to wonder whether the good ship Coronia will make it to the high seas...
American tourists have been going to Europe at a steadily rising rate since World War II, but this year for the first time the rate is dipping. Eastbound steamship bookings are down 6.8% from 1960; Cunard Line (the Queens Mary and Elizabeth) advertised cabin-class accommodations still available as of last week. And although transatlantic airlines are actually carrying more people abroad, the load rate is averaging only 50% because the big new jets have increased seating capacity...
...With a government decision authorizing his Cunard Eagle line to make daily flights to the U.S. East Coast beginning next May, London's handsome Harold Bamberg, 37, won the first round in his battle to snatch some of the lucrative transatlantic trade away from Britain's state-owned BOAC and BEA. Bamberg started his line in 1948 with a surplus Halifax bomber that he bought for $420. Specializing in low fares and package plans (he is also chairman of a big London tourist agency), he parlayed his Halifax into a 20-plane fleet flying fringe European and Caribbean...