Word: hilversum
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Anna survived. Passed from hand to Christian hand like hundreds of other scared and bewildered children, she found refuge at last with five maiden sisters named Van Moorst, all Roman Catholics, in the town of Hilversum. All through the war she was safe. But at war's end it seemed that the ordeal of Anneke, as they called her, was just beginning...
Married. Sophia Christina Feith, 35, former governess of The Netherlands' royal children; and Johan Röell, 42, engineer; in the presence of Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard; bridesmaids: Princess Beatrix, 8, Princess Irene, 7; in Hilversum, The Netherlands...
Dutchmen listened to the cold Nazi voice on the morning broadcast from Hilversum: "In view of the fact that...
...beam to South America. Germany lists its short-wave transmitter that operates from Berlin's Haus des Rundfunks at 40 kw. Great Britain's Daventry, with top power at 50 kw., sends its short-wave voice round the world. The Netherlands has two 60 kw. stations at Hilversum, which operate with unique beams that turn in any direction (known to the Dutch as the "Holland merry-go-round"). The U. S. S. R.'s station RV96 at Moscow is listed at 100 kw., but its great power sings oddly small in many parts of the world...