Word: holland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back on his job as a Ford salesman in Detroit was Prince Louis Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, 25, second in succession to the German throne since his brother Wilhelm married a commoner (TIME, June 12). Salesman Hohenzollern spent most of a six-month vacation in Doom, Holland, failed to sell a Ford to the ex-Kaiser, who calls him "our little American." Said he: "Grandpa certainly is keen about your President Roosevelt...
...soon? What sort of schedule?-are questions not even he can answer. Politics plays a heavy part since any transoceanic line requires entree to the ports of at least two nations, probably more. Moreover, Britain's Imperial Airways, Germany's Luft Hansa, France's Aeropostale, Holland's K. L. M., all have bid for a part in any prospective service. Since the surveying job is bigger than any single agency could afford, all interested parties have agreed to pool their findings. Thus into the pot go the charts made by Pan American, by the British Arctic...
Last April Pan American got into the Orient where competition by the airlines of Great Britain, France, Germany & Holland is particularly hot. Pan American made a partnership deal with the Chinese Nationalist Government to operate its air lines. That, plus the 2,600-mi. Alaskan system acquired last September, gives P. A. A. a doubly strategic position for trans-Pacific operations...
Stuffy Dutch burghers, members of the Netherlands Society for Industry and Commerce, opened at their meeting in Rotterdam last week a letter as explosive as two sticks of dynamite. Signed by Holland's world potent petrol tycoon, Sir Henri Deterding, it urged the Netherlands to reduce the gold content of the gulden, "in order to help trade...
...Finance Minister of Japan), and on the strength of an eve ning's conversation became Japan's banker, sold $200,000,000 of her bonds in the U. S. (biggest international loan prior to the World War). Since then K. L. has floated leans for Sweden, Holland, Austria, Argentina, for Antwerp. Paris. Marseilles and many another state and city...