Word: queen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seemed to the diggers that the storied visit of the Queen of Sheba may have been motivated by fear that Solomon's new sea trade would interfere with her caravan commerce, and her consequent desire to make a deal...
...potent advertisements of national craftsmanship are the modern World's Fair and the modern superliner. Three years ago the French Line launched the vastly chic Normandie as one of France's supreme artistic achievements and somewhat incidentally as a ship. Cunard White Star's vastly smart Queen Mary is supposed to embody the artistic as well as the ship-building genius of Great Britain. Sailing last week on the first return voyage of Holland-America Line's brand new Nieuw Amsterdam (TIME, May 23), the U. S. travelers for whom she was frankly designed found...
...were in mid-depression, Holland-America Line, which had been floundering in red ink, asked for bids on a ship such as the Dutch had never owned. She was to be of 36,000 tons, 750 feet overall-only half the size of such mammoths as the Normandie and Queen Mary, but one of the dozen biggest passenger ships in the world, bigger than any U. S. ship save the late (German-built) Leviathan. Holland-America's two new managing directors, Frans C. Bouman, longtime general manager of Rotterdam Lloyd for the Far East, and Willem H. de Monchy...
...January 1936 the keel was laid. In April 1937 Queen Wilhelmina launched the Nieuw Amsterdam.* With accommodations for 1,232 passengers in cabin, tourist, and third classes, the new, 785 ft., 36,287 ton ship had 374 private bathrooms (a record for her size), 23 public rooms so arranged that all could be thrown together to make her a one-class ship for cruises, two swimming pools, a theatre, more complete air-conditioning and fire protection than any ship afloat, aluminum lifeboats. Most notable of all, her interior decoration ranked her at once as one of the most beautiful ships...
Command Performance (Tues. 3:30 p. m. NBC-Blue). Albert Hall Empire Day Concert attended by King & Queen. From London...