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Snowy-haired, perspicacious Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen is chairman of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. which controls the White Star. Not without soundest reasons did he scrap the world's longest ocean liner keel. When the Oceanic was laid down, super-size rather than superspeed was the boast of luxury ships. For 22 years the trans-Atlantic speed record had been held unmolested by Cunard's gallant Mauretania while ship after ship surpassed her in size. Last month, however, Germany's new Bremen beat the old Mauretania (TIME, July 29), set a new trans-Atlantic liner...
...dream begins with a dreamlike name, "Le Palais de France." Its solid basis is a trapezoidal piece of Manhattan Island, 200 feet in shortest dimension, 498 feet in longest, just north of Columbus Circle, comprising the entire block in which the Century Theatre now stands. On this plot the dream will rise, garnished in every one of its 65 stories with the glories of modern French art and architecture. There is even a whisper that its walls may be of glass...
...longest: Majestic (915 ft.), Leviathan (907 ft), Bremen (888 ft.), Berengaria...
Full up as she was last week the Bremen carried 800 first class passengers, 300 second, 500 tourist third, and 600 third. She is the fourth largest, the third longest, the fastest ship in the world...
Brief is the glory of tallest buildings, longest boats, mightiest cannon, similar man-made objects which for a little while are the superlatives of their kind. With the liner Bremen, world's third longest, just starting on her maiden voyage (see page 21) came last week the announcement that United States Lines, Inc., was planning two new liners longer even than the 938 foot Bremen. They will each be approximately 950 feet long, said Joseph Sheedy, who is operating U. S. Lines, Inc., for Paul Chapman. Each will accommodate 4,000 passengers...