Word: cunarders
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...Glaswegians gathered one day last week at the rain-drenched, mist-shrouded shipyard of John Brown & Co. There they cheered as Princess Elizabeth, in a new green coat and beret-like hat, with young Philip Mountbatten at her side, swung a bottle against the towering bow of the new Cunard White Star liner Caronia. Down the ways slid the 34,000-tonner, the biggest passenger ship launched anywhere since the war. The hull was towed to a dockyard basin, where it will need another ten months of outfitting before it is ready for service...
...million Caronia will have the new Cunard look: single funnel, single mast, sharp clipper bow and a cruiser stern. The Caronia will carry only two classes on its nine decks, on winter cruises and the dollar-rich transatlantic trade. Britain has to get more of her share of that...
...dead before 1916. Happily stationed in London, resplendently uniformed and detailed to duty at the romantic Tower or at Buckingham Palace, young Sitwell in his free evenings discovered the world of fashion. Heady excitements were to be found there: the great hostesses such as Mrs. Asquith, Mrs. Keppel, Lady Cunard; the new beauties, including Lady Diana Manners; the first open roadsters (in other years only "the fastest of fast actresses" would have gone driving alone with a young man); the first dazzling London seasons of Diaghilev's Russian ballet...
Into New York harbor one day last week steamed a chunky, single-funneled, single-masted liner with a cruiser stern. She was the British Cunard White Star Line's 13,700-ton ship Media, the first new liner to be built for the transatlantic service since the war. The British, although stalled in other industries, were losing no time getting their new merchant ships afloat...
...House Committee on Foreign Aid, which had drawn $125,000 and bought space on the Cunard Line's Queen Mary for its forthcoming trip abroad, lived through a bad few hours when the C.I.O. Maritime Committee accused committee members of breaking an eleven-year-old law. The law: Government officials or employees on Government business must travel on U.S. ships, or be denied travel expenses by the Comptroller General. After hasty research, the committee found that the Comptroller has no authority over money Congress appropriates for itself. The committee kept its Queen Mary reservations...