Word: hollande
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What, UNESCO wanted to know, do the people of eight countries think of other nations and of themselves? Pollsters, armed with pencils and a wide range of adjectives (samples: hardworking, conceited, cruel, brave, peace-loving), set out in the U.S., England, France, Italy, West Germany, Australia, Holland, Norway...
...Washington newshens seemed to leave her slightly appalled. "My God," she murmured, as she looked at one of a sheaf of written questions which had been submitted. She had been asked if her 14-year-old daughter, Beatrix, had started going out with boys. Recovering, she answered that in Holland boys were just a nuisance to girls at that age. Then she asked unbelievingly: Did American girls go out with boys at 14? A reporter replied: "Not all of them...
...falseness of the bill, according to Maass, is that it is called "quitclaim" legislation. But quit claim is legal terminology for a grant of a piece of property by one party to another when each party has clear interests in the ownership of the property. "The new Holland bill no quitciaim," Maass said. "It is a clear gift by the federal government of lands in which the states have no interest whatsoever...
...Holland bill will be killed, he said, for Truman will veto it and its proponents will not be able to muster strength to over-ride it. Maass said the only way opponents of the bill have been able to get as many votes as they have is by their "oil for the lamps of learning", program. With the O'Mahoney-Hill plan, they have gotten every school teacher in the country behind them...
...list of the official rates of exchange per one U.S. dollar as of March 15. Country Rate Austria (Schilling) 25.83 Belgium (B. Franc) 50 Canada (C. Dollar) par Denmark (Krone) 6.89 Egypt (Pound) 2.89 England (Pound) 2.80 Finland (Mark) 232 France (Fr. Franc) 350 Germany (Mark) 4.20 Holland (Florin) 3.84 India (Rupee) 4.76 Ireland (Pound) 2.80 Italy (Lira) 624 Mexico (Peso) .1160 Norway (Krone) 7.14 Portugal (Escudo) 28.50 So. Africa (Pound) 2.82 Spain (Peseta) 39.00 Sweden (Krona) 5.13 Switzerland (S. Franc) 4.37 Turkey (Livre...