Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sister ships, the longest in the world (938 feet), were launched, last week, from German yards, and will go into service late next spring for the North German Lloyd. The sisters are Europa and Bremen. Though slim and expected to challenge the trans-Atlantic speed record held by the Cunarder Mauretania, the Teuton sisters will be no lightweights (46,500 tons each). Thus they will be but little lighter than the two heaviest liners in the world: Leviathan and Majestic, which were originally Hamburg-American sister ships, but were snatched from Germany by the Allies...
...Seventy years ago [when the orator was ten] the then young North German Lloyd launched its first vessel for trans-Atlantic service. It gave the craft the name of Bremen. . . " Now it is our wish to give this newest and largest vessel of Germany's revived fleet to its elements. ... I christen thee Bremen...
...merchant tonnage of 5,500,000 by almost nine-tenths, or to 600,000, yet today the merchant fleet of Republican Germany is up to 3,500,000 tons, or three-fifths of pre-War tonnage. Absolutely phenominal has been the "revival" of the North German Lloyd fleet, as statistics tell...
Fortunately the White Star Line score was immediately countered by its rival, the Cunard Line, one of whose skippers was quick to curry popular favor by declaring that his observations showed nothing wrong with the Gulf Stream. Finally the North-German Lloyd's Commodore, Herr Johnsen, scathingly observed that of course the observations of such fast ships as to the currents they were cutting through must naturally be treated with reserve...
...Biggest" English banks are Lloyd's (paid capital, $355,762,000); Barclay's (paid capital, $79,291,085). "Biggest" French banks include: Credit Lyonnais (capital, $10,000,000); Societe Generate (capital, $12,000,000); Banque Nationale de Credit (capital, $20,000,000). On April 24, stockholders approved an increase...