Word: creams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Netherlanders went wild in celebration. Throughout the diked-in nation spanking wenches danced in the streets till the small hours, workmen, on paid holiday, swizzled smooth Holland gin, and school children, shipped to Amsterdam to view the parades, were treated with pictures of the Queen and slabs of ice cream. Highspots of the week-long festivities: the largest military review The Netherlands has ever seen, witnessed by the Queen (one of her favorite royal duties) : a commemorative service in Amsterdam's very old Nieuwe Kerk (New Church), where the Queen was crowned in 1898; a march past the Royal...
...high-spots of the summer session was the "opinion sheet" passed out to students to enable official to out to students to enable officials to give their like and dislikes of their life. Recommendations varied from a demand for more cream for after-dinner coffee to a plea that the course credit system be abandoned altogether and that a more informal adult cultural institute be developed...
...diminutive look of England (''the locomotives are only about thirty-four inches around the bust"), but came to like the homey atmosphere it gave. Oppressed by ''that death-in-life which the Britons . . . like to call English reserve," she nevertheless liked its complement, "the cream-of-mushroom-soup texture" of English leisureliness. And reserved children, after her friends' progressive-school brats, were a relief...
When Messrs. Dun & Bradstreet reported last week that U. S. retail sales for July were 16% below 1937, they added an explanation: "excessive heat replacing heavy rainfall as a deterrent to shoppers." Ice cream consumption in seven days was 500,000 gal. above normal. No adequate figures were available on the consumption of gasoline, soft drinks, railroad tickets and many another commodity, but it was evident that extraordinary weather had made substantial losses and profits for businessmen. And last week for the second in succession, most of the U. S. east of the Rockies lay sweltering under a heat & humidity...
...three years Lufthansa pilots have flown the North Atlantic as cool as cream: they made eight flights in 1936, 14 in 1937, and this year they will make 28, two a week, with the Nordmeer, Nordwind and Nordstern, all Hamburg Ha. 1395 with four Diesel engines, a catapult start, and a payload of only 880 Ib. Lufthansa would like to start flying mail any day now, but it has been allowed to use Pan American's sea base at Port Washington only if it waits till Pan American can match it flight for flight...