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Based on a year's study, the specifications for the new plane fill 195 pages, are the most complete ever drafted. In general the standardized supership will resemble the famed Douglas DC2 and the new DST, but it will be nearly twice the former's size, with 140-ft. wingspread, 95-ft. length, 25-ton weight, four motors. Able to seat 40 passengers or sleep 20, it will have a top speed of 230 m.p.h., a cruising speed of 210 at 75% horsepower, will be able to fly coast-to-coast with two stops in 13 hours, from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Standardized Supership | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

...Hamburg American Line until seized by the Allies after and during the War. But the French Line now has under construction a ship designed to be bigger than the Leviathan or Majestic, faster than the Bremen, and German hearts are sore that Frenchmen are about to worst them. The supership, as yet nameless, is being built with utmost secrecy as to exact details, in the largest French shipyards, Societé Anonyme des Chantiers et Ateliers de St. Nazaire, which had to be enlarged for the purpose by demolishing an entire block of buildings at the upper end of the shipway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: La France Uber Alles | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

...echoed, "Hoch der Bremen!" Radio carried the massed cheering to remotest German hamlets. From stern Prussia to mellow Saxony the whole Fatherland throbbed and thrilled as croaking loud speakers announced that any moment now there would sail from Bremerhaven on her maiden voyage the giant S. S. Bremen-a supership built to wrest from Britain the trans-Atlantic speed record held for the past 22 years by Cunard's famed Mauretania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Bremen Uber Alles | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

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