Word: holland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aircraft making with renewed confidence. By pooling their strained capital resources through mergers and joint efforts, they are getting ready to compete with such U.S. giants as McDonnell Douglas, Boeing and Lockheed. "The Americans would like to have a monopoly on the aircraft industry," says Director van Meerten of Holland's Fokker, which has just test flown its new F28 twin-jet transport, "but we are here to tell them this...
...French, who normally like to go it alone, are the most aggressive joint-effort boosters. This year the Transall, a German-French military-cargo plane, is to go into service. The Breguet 1150 antisubmarine aircraft, produced by France, Germany, Belgium and Holland, is also being delivered. A FrancoBritish combine has announced plans to build a supersonic Jaguar fighter. And France and Britain are thinking of spending $2 billion for a twin-engined variable-geometry fighter to compete with...
...According to the book A Man Called Lucy [May 5], Holland in 1940 disregarded advance warnings about the Nazi invasion. However, I ran the photograph units for the Dutch Resistance and have a photostat of a May 9, 1940 order indicating that the book is not quite correct...
...almost half, their industrial output by two-thirds, their gold and foreign exchange reserves by 100%. Thousands of European firms have merged to take advantage of the market of 180 million that the European Economic Community has created, sending Volkswagens to Belgium, French cheese to Munich, Chianti to Holland, Dutch chocolate to Milan, in a great, borderless swirl of what were once national products...
Would you believe: That during World War II the Allies were warned weeks in advance of the blitzkrieg invasions of Poland, Holland, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Norway and Denmark? That Stalin received a verbatim plan of "Operation Barbarossa"-the crushing German push into Russia-more than a month before it happened? And that nobody in Moscow or The Hague or Whitehall or Washington did anything about those warnings...