Word: holland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mark Jubilee-Birthday Week, ordinarily placid, sober 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...
Since the signing of a reciprocal trade treaty in 1935 trade between the U. S. and The Netherlands has grown enormously. In 1936 Holland (including colonies) imported from the U. S. goods worth $81,758,000, exported to the U. S. goods worth $136,381,000; last year the trend was reversed, imports amounting to $154,028,000 and exports...
...arranging the trade pact was a close-cropped Knight of Orange-Nassau, Jonkheer Pieter Jacob Six, owner of the world's greatest collection of Rembrandts, four of them portraits of members of his own family. Jonkheer Six likes to point out that both the U. S. and Holland are creditor nations, that their trade needs complement each other. Last January he and Dr. E. H. von Baumhauer went to the U. S. to see about forming an organization to spur mutual trade...
...burghers soon turned their scheme over to Fenton B. Turck Jr., youthful vice president of American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. and a trustee of New York's Holland Society...
Energetic Yaleman Turck last month officially announced the formation of Holland House, with such potent directors as Chase National's Winthrop Aldrich, International Business Machines' Thomas J. Watson, Standard Oil of New Jersey's W. S. Farish, Author Hendrik Willem Van Loon...