Word: holland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after the mysterious Rockne crash (TIME, April 6, 1931). But at that point a telephone extension buzzed. He caught up the receiver. From across 3,500 miles of sea came a familiar voice. "Hello, momma," boomed Fokker happily, and in mingled English and Dutch described to his mother in Holland the scene on New York City's Harlem...
When Anthony Fokker bowed out of U. S. aviation in 1931 he was by no means out of business. He was still building Fokkers in Holland, and for the last two years he has been assembling Douglas aircraft abroad under a cross-licensing agreement making him the Douglas manufacturer for Europe. War scares abroad have boomed his business to a reputed $500,000 monthly. He is currently seeking a license to build Fokker ships in Canada...
That Margaret Countess of Holland bore 365 children at once 600 years ago no one believes. No incontestable records of the phenomenon exist. Even Canada's honest Elzire Dionne might have been called a backwoods impostor if one or more of the Quintuplets had died and been disposed of before photographers got there to record the scene. But at Liverpool, England, Mrs. George Taylor of Purgin Street took no such chances when last May she felt that she might set some sort of nativity record. She had herself Xrayed, and sure enough she was carrying quadruplets...
...Zoologist Herbert Spencer Jennings is another Johns Hopkins notable who is retiring this year because of age. Dr. William Holland Wilmer, who achieved his greatest newspaper fame as the eye surgeon of Siam's ex-King Pradhjadipok, retired unwillingly in 1934, died a few-months after...
...atom. Presumably, Herren Heisenberg and Schrodinger were forbidden to attend because of the Nazi Government's antipathy for the League of Nations. Why Dirac of democratic Britain did not appear was not disclosed. Physicist Heisenberg's paper was presented for him by colleagues from Belgium and Holland...