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THE COMING OF LARGER and FANCIER CRUISE SHIPS

  Well,   Barbenheimer   was boffo.   It’s also the first time that one movie opened to more than $100 million and another movie opened to more than $80 million in the same weekend. When all is settled, it will likely turn out to be the fourth biggest box office weekend of all time with over $300 million industry wide. We're avoiding crowds and paying less by going to this double-bill tomorrow. Cruise ships are getting larger and larger.  From  Wikipedia : In the two decades between 1988 and 2009, the largest cruise ships grew a third longer (268 m to 360 m), almost doubled their widths (32.2 m to 60.5 m), doubled the total passengers (2,744 to 5,400), and tripled in volume (73,000 GT to 225,000 GT) .    As of January 2022 , the largest cruise ship,   Wonder of the Seas , has a gross tonnage of 236,857, is 362 metres (1,188 ft) long, 64 metres (210 ft) wide, and holds up to 6,988 passengers. [6] [7] Now, the biggest one of all-time, having five times the tonnage of the Titanic--whi