Word: holland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year he set up in England a Gold Coast and Ashanti trading company for direct trade with the Gold Coast, went to Manhattan to set up another trading company, and when he is done he will set up a third in Holland. Meanwhile, supervision of the cocoa burning is left to an organization with the name of the Gold Coast and Nigeria Hold-Up Committee...
Scholarships totalling $295 were awarded to five students last night by the Student Council, it was announced following last night's meeting. James H. Brooks '38, Paul D. Davis '40, W. Perrin Fuller '40, Edgar W. Hirshberg '38, and Holland L. Willard '40 were the undergraduates receiving the awards...
Nieuw Amsterdam, Nearly twice the size of any vessel previously built in The Netherlands, the Nieuw Amsterdam was solemnly launched by Queen Wilhelmina early in 1937. Due to begin her trial runs in the next fortnight, Holland-America Line's air-conditioned flagship is scheduled to arrive in the U. S. next May. Almost exactly the size and speed of Britain's new Mauretania (see below), The Netherlands' vessel differs from the British ship in that it is streamlined, has egg-shaped, sootless funnels, and its $12,000,000 cost was met entirely without Government subsidy...
Much of the American system of education was indicted in the talk. Discussing his connection with education in Holland, England, and the United States, Lake said that the Dutch system was superior to the others in that it avoided both the dangers of the tutorial system and the mass-production technique of American education...
...week. That it was an easy thing to do, he knew. The last anti-Fascist Italian editor has long since been silenced. Few Germans today ever see an anti-Nazi publication. A smattering of troublesome pamphlets is still smuggled in the bottom of wheat barges ascending the Rhine from Holland, and such journals as the inflammatory bi-monthly Die Schiffart (Shipping) are printed in New York, hidden in the cargoes of German ships by U. S. longshoremen and sneaked into Germany under German longshoremen's jackets...