Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amsterdam, stockbrokers caught the fever, refused to do any more trading unless Finance Minister Pieter Lieftinck lifted his ban on trading in U.S. securities...
...Sablon, last week's business at Montreal was old hat. Since March, he had kicked up a fuss in Hollywood, New York, Brussels, Amsterdam, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City...
Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York, who has received shamrocks from the Lord Mayor of Dublin, a painting from the Lord Mayor of Cork and Holland gin from the Burgomaster of Amsterdam, was still taking it-this time a dozen Banbury buns from the Lord Mayor of Banbury...
...Scala he was such a success that a repeat concert was scheduled. In Paris he earned bravos with the rarely performed Second Symphony of Bruckner. Last week before an international audience in the Swiss mountain resort of Interlaken, Otto Klemperer conducted the great old 120-piece Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra...
There were two levels of the wartime underground in Europe: anonymous patriots who could sometimes fight back a little, and-farther down-wanted men who had to burrow and keep hidden. Gisele van der Gracht's Amsterdam apartment was a station in the subcellar underground. Gisele, a thin blonde in her 30s, was a first-rank Dutch artist, known for her stained-glass window designs. During the occupation she spent half her days on bread lines to feed the men she was hiding. To help them pass the terrible time, she also found pens, ink and paper...