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...past 18 months transatlantic-steamship companies have been ploughing through heavy financial seas with little ballast aboard. Bookings have fallen off sharply despite all manner of inducements to tourists. Last summer first-class rates were cut 10% to 30%. Last month Cunard Steamship Co. resorted to instalment-plan ticket sales. Ostensibly to consider further rate reductions, the North Atlantic Passenger Conference met last week in Brussels. Before it had time to consider anything, U. S. Lines (which is not a member of the Conference) tossed a bomb into its midst...
...call it Winthrop House. There can be no question that externally it is the most drab and austere of all the Houses. The Students' Common Room is a rather bleak expanse which suppresses rather than fosters congeniality, the dining room with its undershot alcove has a bit of the steamship about it but is an interesting architectural device and serves its proper purpose. Confronted by the Statler-like dining room of Standish the designers strove mightily to transform it into a presentable library and, to the astonishment of all, succeeded admirably. The walls are done in two tones of green...
...sightseeing, instruction, and photography. Scheduled air transport continued to boom, but not so much as in recent years. For the first time since 1925 it failed to double its previous year's record for passenger-mileage. Nevertheless it was up some 20% in a year when railroad and steamship travel slumped heavily. Transport planes carried 457,800 passengers, flew...
...shipmasters who have viewed with articulate alarm the "cruises to nowhere" sponsored by foreign lines, last week viewed with something akin to horror a new policy of Cunard Steamship Co. Cunard passengers would not be carried to "nowhere," but they would be carried elsewhere for hardly any cash fare at all.* Under an arrangement with Morris Plan Corp. of America, industrial moneylenders, Cunard inaugurated a system of installment plan transportation that would enable the wanderlusty to go to Europe for as little as $34 down...
...transatlantic steamship lines last week decided to make some money by charging $2,500 for carrying a million dollars worth of gold ingots across the water. Previous rate: $1,875. At the same time all big New York banks flatly refused to act as agents for the shipment of gold coins to Europe. France, for all her touted gold standard, will not give Jean Frenchman any gold coins. Her central bank will pay gold in nothing less than $8,000 lots. Therefore the French peasantry, which has taken the place of Mother India as the world's most avaricious gold...