Word: southampton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours last week Britain's mammoth liner Queen Mary lay at a Southampton wharf as helpless as a beached whale. Her promenade decks and immense saloons crawled with distinguished passengers in mink wraps and Homburg hats...
...Southampton, England, camera-shy Greta Garbo, homeward bound, failed to shy fast enough, got caught again in that same wonderful old hat (see cut). But she arrived back in Manhattan at the top of her form: after two months of travel & observation in churning Europe, she had nothing...
...Southampton, L. I., Henry Ford II merrily turned 30 at the Meadow Club, with the assistance of home-town dinner-dance guests imported from Detroit by the planeload...
Over the dingy Southampton docks loomed the three gigantic orange stacks, the coruscating white superstructure of the Queen Mary, Captain Illingworth, Master. Her 1,020-ft. length and her towering height dwarfed the battered buildings of the blitzed waterfront. The tugs chugged alongside. Antlike figures made fast the tossed lines. The town band, percussive and perspiring, panted with bravura through the Merry Widow Waltz, Pomp & Circumstance, and struck up the great invocation: Rule, Britannia! Through the mist in some watchers' eyes the colossal Cunarder wavered moltenly. Even Colonel Blimp blew his nose with a Tory blast prolonged...
When World War II broke out, the Queen Mary was outward bound from Southampton carrying a record number of 2,332 passengers. The giant ship proceeded at full speed on a route far north of her usual run, arrived in New York harbor the day after Britain declared war (Sept. 3, 1939). She was reported to have brought a cargo of gold worth $44,000,000. For six months she was berthed near her rival, the French liner Normandie. Dock rent cost Cunard...