Word: holland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much-publicized electrical companies-General Electric and Westinghouse-supply most of the U. S. with lamp bulbs. In Europe that function is performed chiefly by potent Philips Glow-lampworks of Holland, which also boasts one of the finest physical research laboratories east of the Atlantic. Last week it appeared that all three companies were working independently on the same thing -a new sodium vapor bulb to be used primarily for street lighting. In Manhattan, 100-odd members, of the New York Electrical Society sat like jaundiced mummies in an auditorium suffused with the yellow sodium light while their president described...
...average motorist would probably find the bulb dim at first sight, it actually gives three to four times more light than the ordinary street lamp. The Philips bulb is credited with increasing seeing power at night from 12 to 20 times. Already installed in a dozen places in Holland, England, Denmark, Switzerland and Norway, it has lighted highways so brightly that automobiles can speed at 60 m.p.h. without headlights. European police are delighted with it, automobile clubs indorse it, insurance officials grin broadly at the thought of reduced risks from night accidents...
...representative of a Great Power with Britain, France, the U. S., Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia. There are at least a dozen Latin American countries whose views on foreign trade coincide quite as closely as those of the Little Entente. The Scandinavian countries form another group with Belgium and Holland. Should they form working combines even half as efficient as the Little Entente, and there is much evidence to suggest that they will, not 66 nations large & small but ten great powers will do the World Conference's work...
...wish to lay before you a kind request. I am a native of Holland, but lived in the United States as a naturalized citizen some thirty years. At present I am 71 years of age, but of excellent health and I take great interest in America, the land I love...
...world's tin resources. A rise of 4? a pound in tin, a rise which took place last week, put some $2,000,000 a year into his pocket. The only person in the world who can vie with him is good Queen Wilhelmina of Holland who controls the Dutch tin industry, producer of 20% of the world's tin. But alas for both of them, their prospective profits were in dollars which, translated into francs and guilders, would be very much diminished...