Queen Mary Quotes



The debate was on a bill to provide a 9.5 million pound subsidy to the Cunard company which had run out of money trying to build the first over 1000 foot ocean liner. Like the Hoover administration in the U. S, the idea of government economic development was not approved by the British Government. However, at the urging of Kirkwood. Lord Weir and the Prince of Wales the subsidy was voted. The result of the bailout was The Queen Mary.