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Steering Cunard Off the Rocks | Containing the Comet | 2

38m · Business Movers · 02 May 07:00

Cunard’s business is devastated by the advent of the passenger jet airliner. The company’s unlikely savior is Basil Smallpeice, a senior airline accountant who moves to Cunard in the hopes of rescuing the ship he helped hole beneath the waterline.

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