Word: hollande
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...awareness of a deeper separation that made news in Holland last week. For the first time, the people of The Netherlands seemed to have abandoned their hope that the royal crisis would disappear if they just pretended not to notice; for the first time, Dutch editors clamored specifically and vociferously for drastic government action to clear up that mess in Soestdijk Palace...
West Germany's reluctance, voiced by Konrad Adenauer, to accept a military draft is but a symptom, though an important one, of feelings in France and Holland. Adenauer reasons that if America can afford to institute a manpower cut that will spell pulling out of our European bases, Germany need not meet its violently unpopular quota of 500,000 men in arms...
...miles off his port bow. Andrea Doria was at that point running a few miles south of the westbound lane of Track Charlie, an "informal" sea lane charted by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and generally followed by the big transatlantic liners of the U.S., Britain, France and Holland, but not necessarily by the Italians and the Swedes. Eastbound Stockholm was about 19½ miles north of the eastbound lane of Charlie...
...fear of upsetting the other European currencies. The Germans worry that if they free the Deutsche mark while other currencies are weak, so much trade would flow their way that it might torpedo the European Payments Union, to the detriment of all European traders outside West Germany. Belgium, Holland and Switzerland all have stable money and trade balances, could probably compete under the terms of free currency exchange. Italy, too, is moving ahead rapidly; the lira has been stabilized at 625 to the dollar, and, while Italy has a sizable trade deficit, the flood of tourist dollars helps right...
...year Fight. The man who gets credit for pushing the waterway to completion was a pioneering Victoria, Texas banker named C. S. E. Holland, who spent most of his life fighting for a cheap way to carry the Gulf Coast's raw materials north in return for needed manufactured goods. Forming the Intracoastal Canal Association with the help of another hard-driving businessman named Roy Miller, he badgered a reluctant Congress into shelling out funds over a period of 40 years, first for a short, 53-mile strip in Louisiana barely 40 ft. wide, 5 ft. deep, later...