Word: kungsholm
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Half a loaf is better than none. And a long loaf-say about three months' worth-is best of all. For the cynic who has always envied Paul Gauguin, the Kungsholm departs Jan. 12 for a 94-day voyage to the South Pacific, calling at such Conradic ports as the Marquesas, Moorea and Tahiti. Average fare: about $6,500. For those who prefer the fictional accomplishments of Phileas Fogg (after all, Gauguin died broke), the Gripsholm will allow passengers to go round the world in 86 days, with stops at India, Ceylon and Singapore...
...music a 50-day whirl from Bayreuth to Rome, Wagner to Verdi. In addition, 16,000 ocean cruise passengers (average age: 65) each year take American Express shore tours or buy the whole cruise, e.g., a 97-day, round-the-world trip (cost: up to $20,000) on the Kungsholm...
...World War II years when seven of her freighters were sunk. Since 1946. SAL has paid annual dividends of 15%, and last year tossed in a 25% stock bonus. As an unsubsidized line, SAL does not have to buy in Sweden if prices are less elsewhere. The Kungsholm was built in Holland of German steel, uses Danish diesels and U.S. air conditioning...
...biggest (694,483 tons) shippers. The combine was started in 1865 when 27-year-old Axel Broström borrowed money to buy a wooden trading ketch, Mathilda. Last week Axel's grandson and SAL's board chairman, Tor Erland Broström, stood on the Kungsholm's glassed-in decks and beamed as New York harbor saluted Mathilda's youngest descendant...
...first Kungsholm, originally leased for a year from the Holland-American Line, was scrapped in 1929 by HAL. The second Kungsholm, built in 1928, became famed as a cruise ship in the 19303, was taken over by the U.S. in late 1941 and converted into a troopship. Renamed the Italia, she is now owned by Italy's Home Lines, Inc., and operates on a North Atlantic...