Word: hollande
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holland seems actually better off than France and Italy in spite of having meat rationing and insisting that tourists keep track of the money they spend. A sure sign of this is that man in Holland is offended if you refuse the cigarette he offers while the Frenchman or Italian does not expect you to take...
...Finch of Dartmouth College, the Executive Director of the Seminar, will lead the money raising campaign. He will be assisted in the United States by past and present members of the Seminar faculty and staff. Former students will seek financial support for the Seminar in England, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Holland, and Belgium...
Cunard's "Scythia" and "Samaria" were former iuxury liners which had been pressed into service as troop transports during the war and had only partly recovered. So were Holland-American's "Volendam" and "Tabinta." The United States Lines ran three little war-design ex-transports with the ominous names of "Marino Tiger," "Flasher," and "Shark." None of the boats were exactly models of comfort--the Cunard ships, which had had a capacity of 500 in their luxury days, were carrying up to 1400 this summer. And there were ugly rumors that the reason half the ships sailed from Quebec...
...also hopes to reach students and teachers who traveled in Europe this summer, and who have made particular note of students and schools where aid might be sent. Operating through CARE and the Unitarian Service Committee, the organization has, in the past, aided students and groups in France, Italy, Holland, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Austria. Over 100 dollars was last year send to aid student DP's at Heidleberg...
...Festival Committee rules allowed. He took notes of meetings and speeches, photographed exhibits, gathered material released by various delegations. On the VOLENDAM'S return trip, as a member of the N.S.A. orientation staff, he led a three-day series of discussions about the Festival which packed the pitching Holland-American liner's dining room with more than 600 students. After the discussions were over, one of the delegation's leaders said that "I may disagree with Warshaw, but he is honest as hell...