Word: eygenraam
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...fast as they reclaim fertile land from lakes, marshes and sea, the land-hungry Dutch find other acres swallowed up by growing cities, new roads and airfields. Farmers lucky enough to find land are often caught without a market. One of them, 49-year-old Truck Farmer Simon Eygenraam, summed up their problem: "Look, we Dutchmen together produce much more than the home market needs, and we export, mostly to Britain and Germany. But we're hampered by trade restrictions and quotas . . . I cannot get foreign currency, therefore I cannot buy the freezer units I would like to have...
...people like Eygenraam, emigration-to Australia, Canada, South Africa and other countries that have room-seems the best solution; because of the tight quota (3,153 a year), few Dutch emigrants get to the U.S. Some, like Harrie Lamers and his twelve children who headed homeward last week after 18 months in Canada, are too homesick to stay in foreign lands. But while the twelve Lamers children were coming home, the 14 Branderhorst children, and others like them, were leaving Holland. Said Simon Eygenraam, en route with his wife and four children to "New Holland" on the Volendam: "There must...
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