Word: hrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outside, the Liberté looked much the same as the Europa did in 1930, when she held the blue ribbon for the fastest (4 days 17 hrs. 6 min.) east-west transatlantic crossing. The climax to her German career came in 1939, when she slipped out of New York on Aug. 22, skipped her Channel stops, and scurried into Bremerhaven three days before war began. There Allied troops found her, in May 1945, filthy from neglect but undamaged by bombing. Used briefly as a U.S. Navy transport, she was returned to the Inter-Allied Reparation Agency because U.S. experts thought...