Word: riband
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speedy version of the old, nearly two knots slower (average speed: 20.7 knots); less roomy (1,300 passengers); 13 feet shorter (length overall: 722 feet), but 4,000 tons heavier. Built for comfort, she will never duplicate the speed record of the "Old Girl," who held the mythical Blue Riband 22 years, until Germany's Bremen took it away (Cunard White Star's Queen Mary now holds...
Simultaneously, Italy's rival merchant marine reorganized into four groups each covering one section of the seven seas and operating under a holding company named Finmare.* Finmare's first job will be to alter the Rex to try to recapture the Blue Riband of the Atlantic...
Entries for what he whimsically called "a new Blue Riband of the World's Soup Tureen" were called for in London last week by elegant Managing Director George Reeves-Smith of swank Claridges, the Berkeley and the Savoy. His hostels, Mr. Reeves-Smith announced, will award a Silver Jubilee Commemoration Cup and Medals for the three best recipes for vegetable soups, submitted by cooks the world over...