Word: holland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Willemse's book is an account of a life-time spent actively on the New York City police force. Beginning with the racy, humorous narrative of the author's voyage to America after his running away from Holland, the book continues swiftly and soon is taken up by Captain Willemse's adventures and escapades in the famous, or rather infamous "Tenderloin" district of New York's Bowery...
Standard Statistics Co. Inc., world's largest figure factory, estimated that $1,000,000,000 had flown the Atlantic, the bulk of it to London. France, whose tie to gold is none too secure, has received little, but Holland and Switzerland have been drowned in dollars. Unlike the export of gold which is strictly banned,* the flight from the dollar has been quietly encouraged by Washington; it pushed down the price without requiring devaluation by Presidential decree...
...whole job would require about four years, directly employ about 4,000 men. The Port Authority, operator of the present Holland Tube, got $10,000,000 in quick cash to order 50,000 tons of cast iron tunnel segments, 2,000 tons of special tunnel nuts and bolts...
University of Southern California's President Rufus Bernhard von Kleinsmid returned from a visit to ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II in Doom, Holland, said that the ex-Kaiser urged all German-Americans to cooperate with President Roosevelt's recovery program...
...only has a law against foreigners dumping in the U. S., but even when the Secretary made his announcement the Treasury Department was considering forbidding imports of steel from Germany, tennis shoes, electric light bulbs and calcium carbide from Japan, stearic acid and thumb tacks from Holland, rock salt from Canada, woven wire fencing, sulphide paper and binder twine from England-all on the grounds of dumping. Following his wheat export proposal Mr. Wallace announced final details of the plan to raise hog and corn prices (TIME, Aug. 21): the Government will spend $55,000,000 buying...