Automobile manufacturers often wish that they could attract the patriotic fervor to their products that shipbuilders and steamship operators do to theirs. If, for example, British Austin Motor Co.. Ltd. should be forced to suspend "Baby Austin" production the average Briton would not feel called upon to do anything about it. But last month when Cunard Line felt it necessary to stop work on its 73,000-ton No. 534, British patriots reacted as to a national calamity. Retired colonels, war widows and schoolboys sent in small sums to Cunard Line; the Government was put...
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