Card sharks plied the great passenger liners, back and forth.
Two of them, the Canberra and QE2, were the last great passenger liners to be launched by a British shipyard and among the last to have British ownership.
Detroit, and, yes, some foreign manufacturers, especially the Germans, are introducing great passenger cars into our market.
Since the Transportation Department rule was announced, the domestic airline industry has generally argued that the federal penalties will bring "unintended consequences — more canceled flights and greater passenger inconvenience," as the Air Transport Association put it.
In a submission to the Airports Commission, the airline said expanding Heathrow would provide greater passenger and economic benefits.
Cunard decided to pass up the convenience of the occasional passage in favour of a greater passenger capacity.
In 1873, she was lengthened and refitted in Adelaide to enable longer distances under steam and greater passenger and cargo capacity.
Students may choose an extinct animal on their own or from the following list: Archaeopteryx, giant Irish elk, woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, three-toed sloth, saber-toothed tiger, stellars sea cow, bluebuck, giant moa, elephant bird, Eastern elk, cape lion, tarpan, quagga, great auk, passenger pigeon, Carolina parakeet, Barbary lion, heath hen, or Tasmanian wolf.
The son of a son of a sailor, Mr. Saez claimed a long line of seafaring forebears, including his father, a merchant marine who worked on the great transoceanic passenger ships, and a grandfather from the Canary Islands, a seamen's haven that legend holds "is all that's left of the lost continent of Atlantis," Mr. Saez said with a knowing wink.
I have never been a great airplane passenger.
The 1970 Burlington/Great Northern merger notwithstanding, cars carried both the "Big Sky Blue" livery characteristic of late Great Northern passenger trains and the "Cascade Green" of the Burlington Northern Railroad.
