Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were seeing mysterious sky ships as early as 1897. An even earlier notice comes from observant Samuel Pepys. In his diary for April 26, 1664, Pepys writes: "Home to the Old Exchange by coach, where great news and true, I saw by written letters, of strange fires seen at Amsterdam in the air-and not only there, but in other places thereabout...
...musical world knows Amsterdam for its topflight Concertgebouw Orchestra; Amsterdammers' own musical affections center more mundanely on their pierementen, the oversized (10-ft.-high), richly painted barrel organs that trundle through the city streets from dawn to sundown. They furnish the common man's music: the oompah of his visions, the clanging of his troubles, the tra-la-la of his frolicking loves. Some notable feature of design or decoration gives them distinctive names: "Big Belly," "Buffalo," "Water Jug," "Rug Beater," "Cement Mixer" (for an oversized grinding wheel...
...national chess champion; of a heart attack; in Triberg, Germany. Beefy Bogolyubov kept chess enthusiasts the world over in seemingly endless anxiety in 1929 when he took on Dr. Aleksandr Alekhin of Paris in a 25-game world championship match, played in Wiesbaden, Heidelberg, Berlin, The Hague, Rotterdam and Amsterdam-and lost...
...Amsterdam Stock Exchange, bustling center of Dutch financial life, stopped all trading last week. Like so many of Europe's troubles, the reason for the stoppage dated back to the war. When the Germans overran The Netherlands in 1940, they helped themselves to a giant Dutch treat: all Jewish-owned stocks, bonds and other assets were expropriated and deposited with a Nazi-controlled company which took the name of Amsterdam's famed Lippmann, Rosenthal & Co. For a while, the Nazis' Lippmann, Rosenthal preserved the myth of Jewish ownership, credited the original security owners with accrued dividends...
...this problem, based on the sale of a single share of timber stock, worth $172. Said the council: since the broker knew that Lippmann, Rosenthal had put the stock on the market, the sale was illegal; the stock must be returned to its original owner. At the news, the Amsterdam Stock Exchange stopped issuing quotations and thus, in effect, stopped all trading. With thousands of similar stock titles now up in the air (most U.S.-held Dutch securities have clear title), the exchange would not accept responsibility for any further transactions. Amsterdam Jews rejoiced at the turn of events. Said...