Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allied airmen last week reported that the Germans were moving troops eastward in The Netherlands, north of the Lek (northern branch of the lower Rhine). This might foretell a Nazi evacuation of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, The Hague. It might mean that the Germans were afraid of being cut off in the western Netherlands by an Allied push to the Zuider Zee. More probably, it meant that they needed the Dutch garrison to help man the Rhine. As against 70 or 80 divisions in December, Rundstedt was now estimated to have no more than 40 or 50 in the west. Since...
...notice the song's commercial potentialities; then they suddenly caught on and made furious attempts to obtain the rights to the song. But by then the Trinidad rights had been sewed up and the song imported to the U.S. by an up-&-coming radio funnyman named Morey Amsterdam...
...Amsterdam, who describes himself as a "well-dressed hangover" has a well-stuffed musical memory. He is the son of Max Amsterdam, who plays with the San Francisco Symphony. Morey has explained: "The tune is calypso, of course, and then again it's not. It's really just an old Jewish melody with maracas [rhythm gourds] added...
...battle was fought in the undulating countryside just west of where the Rhine divides (into the Waal and Lek) for its final course to the sea. Here the rich burghers of Utrecht, Rotterdam and Amsterdam once had summer villas and liked to call its pleasant hills and forested hummocks "Little Switzerland." Here there were three fine towns: Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem, rich in the histories of ancient wars and in the traditions of peaceful living. And here Allied parachutists dropped behind German units like pieces on a checkerboard hopping over their opposition...
...tons of bombs. With that huge force were U.S. fighter types which made the escort possible-450 Thunderbolts and long-range Lightnings, all carrying belly tanks. As this mass attack returned and German fighters settled again on Lowlands fields, Marauders hit them there-at Schiphol near Amsterdam...