Since the War the biggest transatlantic liner and the fastest have never been the same boat.
Biggest today: Majestic (German built, British owned). Fastest: Europa (German built, owned). Last week this technical superiority of Teutons on the sea was challenged at last and definitely by their immemorial enemies, the French.
Looking like nobody's enemy, M. Jean Tillier, tall, broad-shouldered manager of the French Line in the U. S. and Canada, made the challenging announcement in Manhattan. "Within 30 days," said he in crisp English, "we will lay at Saint Nazaire the keel of a...
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