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Canada's Empress...
TIME, June 26, p. 2 -Canada's Atlantic pride, the Empress of Britain, is indeed roomy but emphatically not old. In her classification of express liner (the top classification), only four Atlantic liners are newer-built and two of them are newer by only one year. She is newer than the Bremen, Europa, Ile de France. The Empress of Britain has such ultra-new luxuries as snip-to-shore telephones in her roomy apartments, full-sized tennis and squash courts, private baths with 70% of cabin-class rooms. She holds the record for the fastest land-to-land crossing...
...After such a boner TIME'S Foreign News Editor does not deserve it, but next time he goes to Europe let him travel on the Empress of Britain and be informed...
...Halifax Harbor, after four last slow days in Quebec and the wooded Maritime Provinces, Their Majesties King George and Queen Elizabeth last week wound up their month-long American tour, went aboard the white-sided, yellow-funneled Empress of Britain and headed homeward...
Escorted by the Canadian destroyers Skeena and Saguenay and the British cruisers Glasgow and Southampton, the Empress put out to sea, while crowds ashore roared God Save the King. From the bridge the King and Queen waved their farewell; the Queen was almost invisible behind the high railing until something was brought for her to stand on. On Chebucto Head a great smelly bonfire of wood, oil and old tires, visible for 80 miles, was built to cheer them on their way. But for a brief stop at St. John's, capital of Newfoundland, Britain's oldest colony...