The slowest de luxe liners on the trans-Atlantic run are big, broad boats sailed by big, broad Dutchmen. Into Manhattan last week hove the S. S. Rotterdam, fresh from a $1,000,000 overhaul.
"Is she any faster?" chorused reporters who think speed is news.
"Well, gentlemen, perhaps a little," said Mynheer Adrian Gips, a director of the Holland America Line. Stoutly he added that nearly all the $1,000,000 had been spent on solid Dutch comfortmore bathrooms, broader cabins, a new swimming pool in what was once cavernous cargo space. There are no boats on any ocean...
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