Word: holland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conference rose, promising to reassemble within three months, Belgium's Henri Jaspar rubbed his hands in satisfaction. The Netherlands' delegates on their way home were pained to hear that a Netherlands Society for Managed Currency had just been formed to get Holland off the gold standard "by all the legitimate means at its disposal...
That meant that France, Holland, Belgium and Switzerland must rally to a last desperate defense of their gold standards. Their first stand came quickly?when Liege, fourth city of Belgium, suddenly defaulted on its debts. The Government promptly stepped to its aid but pressure on the Belga spread to other gold-bloc currencies, and for the first time in two months the dollar rose to parity with the franc...
...gold francs (Swiss) due from member nations in 1934, more than 14,000,000 francs remain unpaid. Even punctilious Britain still owes 1,000,597 francs for the year. The League secretariat could only list twelve nations (Canada, Denmark, Spain, India, Luxembourg, Mexico, Norway, Holland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey) that are not in arrears...
...Patrician burghers still blush painfully at mention of the shocking events of last year, when the native crew of Holland's biggest battleship, DC Zevcn Provincien, waited until the commander and most of the officers were ashore, mutinied, and seized the ship (TIME...
Beneath the Hudson River, one midnight, Patrolman Raymond L. Pine caught a sleek young pig trotting westward through the Holland Tunnel from Manhattan toward Jersey City...