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Sinking ever deeper into the red as more and more transatlantic passengers switched to planes, Britain's famed old Cunard line two years ago decided to take to the air itself. With blessing of the British government's Air Transport Licensing Board, Cunard bought up the small Bermuda-Nassau-England Eagle Airways, renamed it Cunard Eagle, ordered itself some expensive jets and pre pared to fly as well as sail the Atlantic. At that point, another agency of the British government objected. Air Minister Peter Thorneycroft vetoed the idea on the ground that the government-owned British Overseas...
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...
Board regulations provide that schedule carriers are permitted to operate charter flights only to the extent of 10 per cent of their mileage on regularly scheduled flights. Under this provision, Cunard Eagle would only be allowed to operate about 20 charter flights a year to this country...
...Cunard Eagle appealed to the Ministry of Aviation, which has discussed the matter with U.S. State Department officials. The dispute was not resolved, but Britain agreed to extend permission for American charter flights to the U.K. until June...
...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...