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After the exhausting festivities in Rio, he and his family welcomed the rest. Mrs. Truman spent most of her time in their comfortable quarters in the admiral's island. Daughter Margaret, in white halter and skirt, sunned herself on the surrender deck (while sailors peered from behind gun mounts) and got in an occasional game of deck tennis...
...Norwegian Airlines Kvitbjoern (White Bear), a Sandringham flying boat, was one of the fanciest airliners aloft. An elevator carried its steward between the kitchen on the upper deck and the dining room and snack bar on the lower...
Half an hour later, the last supply boat headed for the French shore, carrying six sick refugees-the Jews' reply to the British ultimatum. The Runnymede Park put to sea, with its passengers grasping the grill of their caged-in deck and singing defiantly in Hebrew. The Ocean Vigour and Empire Rival followed...
Floating Hotel. When conversation palled, there was the ship herself to explore-a floating Grand Hotel. For the sun baskers and the eight-times-around-the-deck strollers, there were three acres of deck space. A walk around the Queen's promenade deck added up close to a quarter of a mile. To carry the passengers effortlessly from one to another of the twelve decks, which rise within the Queen's 50,000-ton metal hull and spill above it like the hanging gardens of Babylon, were 21 noiseless elevators. The murals of the public rooms, boarded...
...helmsman, instead of the angry, seven-foot monster wheel of the first Cunarders, which flung men to the deck or threw them across the wheelhouse, there is finger-tip steering with a complex series of superhuman power boosters to swing the 140-ton rudder through churning seas. If the watch officer chooses, a gyro pilot will relieve the helmsman entirely and keep the ship on course. No leadsman need stand in the bow to take soundings, for the navigator has an acoustic-electric fathometer to tell him, at the press of a button, how much water is beneath the hull...