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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Predicting there will be no general war this year, Herbert Hoover sailed into Manhattan this week on the French liner Normandie, wound up a tour of 15 countries in nearly all of which he is as popular as Santa Claus, was rousingly cheered, hailed as an American Liberal...
When the New York-to-Cuba vacation liner Morro Castle was gutted by fire off the New Jersey coast in 1934 with the loss of 124 lives, closest approach to a hero to emerge from the muckraking Department of Commerce investigation that followed was the ship's chief radio operator, pudgy George White ("Sparks") Rogers. Having stuck to his key until he was hauled out of the radio room half-suffocated, Sparks Rogers was decorated for his heroism by the Veteran Wireless Operators Association...
...recent film British Actress Grade Fields, who makes a reputed $750,000 a year, sang "You've Got to Smile When You Say Goodby" from the top deck of a departing liner. Recently, as her father and mother sailed from Southampton on the Berengaria, Gracie standing on the dock suddenly burst into "You've Got to Smile When You Say Good-by." The astonished crowd around her, liking Gracie much more than they did the proprieties, clamored for an encore. Gracie obliged: "Little Old Lady," for her mother...
Third biggest vessel in the world and oldest big liner afloat, Cunard White Star's Berengaria (launched as the German Imperator in 1912) last week sailed empty back to England on what may be her last Atlantic crossing-branded a fire hazard by the U. S. Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation. Once last year the Berengaria caught fire during an overhaul. In Southampton last month flames blazed for two hours below decks, burned out a section of the Berengaria's, third class, but did not prevent her sailing to the U. S. on schedule. While...
Mauretania, So well ahead were the plans of Cammell Laird's Birkenhead shipbuilders last week that rivets were going into plates on the top decks of Great Britain's new 33,000-ton Cunarder, largest liner ever built in England,* and costing an estimated $10,000,000. Launching is scheduled for July. Nearly 3,000 tons bigger than her famed predecessor of the same name-scrapped two years ago-the new ten-deck Mauretania is 750 ft. long and, with a speed of 22 knots from her steam turbines, will cross the Atlantic in six days. Carrying...