Word: berengaria
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Against the crack ships of Sir Percy's fleet, the Berengaria, Aquitania and Mauretania, Lord Essendon pits his Majestic, "world's biggest ship," his Olympic, his new Georgic. Both face stern competition from the French Line, the North German Lloyd-Hamburg-American combination, U. S. Lines and to a lesser extent from Il Duce's Italia Line. Though Tsar Emil Lederer of the Transatlantic Passenger Conference keeps fares equalized for all, the fight for traffic is hot, the profits nil. Only big British shipping concern to escape the woes of the North Atlantic dogfight is the late...
...medium he is requested by a banker to ask the late great John Pierpont Morgan what he thinks about the Moratorium. "Don't know anything about it," replies the shade of Mr. Morgan. "You better take the Berengaria." Mr. Carroll excites whoops of enjoyment from spectators aware of the city's political situation with a Jimmy Walker song ending: You can have your City Hall, I'll take A. C. Blumenthal...
...voluminous is Britain's new tariff schedule that neither the Press nor the U. S. Department of Commerce had the bulky document cabled over last week, but copies were rushed down to Southampton and put aboard the S. S. Berengaria for delivery this week in the U. S. Even the new rates are "temporary,'' emphasized Sir George May; will probably be revised after Mother Britain has clucked with her dominion chicks at the coming Imperial Conference in Ottawa...
...England for as little as $84, to England and back to the U. S. for $148. A trip to France on the Rochambeau (cabin-class) can be had for $110. A first-class trip on the Homeric costs $168. For the famed Prince of Wales suite on the Berengaria the price has been cut from $2,430 to $1,267.50. Average minimum rates, new and old: New* Old First Class $200 $250 Cabin 132 165 Second Class 120 152 Tourist 108 132 Third Class 71.50 79.50 The Conference was faced with a difficult problem. If it refused to approve...
...Gold ingots worth $320,000 plunked into Cherbourg harbor last week while Frenchmen were unloading $24,000,000 of gold from the U. S. from the British liner Berengaria. Soon French divers had recovered all but $24,000 worth of the lost gold. When they finally gave up the hunt with shrugs, French dredges began to dredge...