Word: guilders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Needless to say, it flowed freely. The foreign lines were more than happy to encourage the Americans to spend their money, especially when they spent dollars. The Dutch Line went so far as to mint some special ships money, script and coin, to keep the students from spending Dutch guilder...
...Rooijen charges 350 guilders ($132) for a course of treatments. He does not claim success in every case; he promises to refund the fee (less 1 guilder per treatment for the first six weeks) if, after a year, there is no "clearly visible" growth of hair. The procedure is to brush the patient's scalp, apply the secret fluid, then brush the scalp again. Van Rooijen will not allow an analysis of his formula by Dutch medical men, who are skeptical of his claims.* If the doctors want to see results, says the barber sharply, let them look...
Princess Wilhelmina, who abdicated last September as Queen of The Netherlands, finally got her pension approved by the Dutch parliament, which decided, despite grumbles from a guilder-minded minority, that 400,000 ($151,000) a year was not too much for an ex-queen who had given 50 years' service...
Investors could buy the new shares only in Holland and at the official rate of 38? to the guilder, more than three times the free market rate in New York. They could either sell their options in the U.S.-at a huge discount caused by the Dutch regulations; or in Holland, where the proceeds would be frozen. The Dutch blandly said they were only trying to prevent a dollar drain...
Holland's 160,000 Jews (less than 2% of the population) are highly regarded. When Jews in one city were charged with harboring British agents and assessed a 50,000-guilder fine to be paid within six hours, the sum was raised in time by Christians who handed the money over to the local rabbi, while in five Protestant churches in Amsterdam protests were openly uttered. When a Jewish professor was forced out of the University of Delft (Dutch M. I. T.) the students struck. Nazis closed the university the next day. Said an alumnus...