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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House Committee on Foreign Aid, which had drawn $125,000 and bought space on the Cunard Line's Queen Mary for its forthcoming trip abroad, lived through a bad few hours when the C.I.O. Maritime Committee accused committee members of breaking an eleven-year-old law. The law: Government officials or employees on Government business must travel on U.S. ships, or be denied travel expenses by the Comptroller General. After hasty research, the committee found that the Comptroller has no authority over money Congress appropriates for itself. The committee kept its Queen Mary reservations...
Trial Dip. The cramped (141 cubic foot) space inside the steel-shelled coconut will be crammed with control apparatus, batteries and instruments. The bathyscaphe will carry enough oxygen to keep two men alive for more than 32 hours, and chemicals to absorb the carbon dioxide given off by their breathing. Powerful searchlights outside the cabin will light up the sea, and allow fish and other bathyfauna to be observed and photographed. Because time for note-taking will be short, a recording device will bring back a running commentary on the dive. The depth ship's experimental compass will...
Recently, the Evening Moscow found space to give its favorite tunesmith a somewhat ominous pat on the back. Under a sketch of Sedoi at the piano a verse said: "After songs should come operas. But though he hasn't created any Traviatas, let's sing, friends, and Sedoi, the young laureate, will join...
Floating Hotel. When conversation palled, there was the ship herself to explore-a floating Grand Hotel. For the sun baskers and the eight-times-around-the-deck strollers, there were three acres of deck space. A walk around the Queen's promenade deck added up close to a quarter of a mile. To carry the passengers effortlessly from one to another of the twelve decks, which rise within the Queen's 50,000-ton metal hull and spill above it like the hanging gardens of Babylon, were 21 noiseless elevators. The murals of the public rooms, boarded...
...when Labor politicians were yelling that the Queen Mary was a palace for the passengers with slave quarters for the crew. Now each seaman has a curtained bunk with a reading lamp of his own. Seamen have their own bar, plenty of shower baths and much more space than before. The big inducement, however, is the Queen Mary's food and the chance to buy in New York...