Word: hollande
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...Netherlands, where intermittent month-long protest riots had broken out in major cities after the Nazis' first raid on the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam. Rajakowitsch soon got the roundups rolling smoothly. As boss of the dreaded Section IV-B-4 (Special Office for Jewish Affairs) in Holland, he was so thorough that when he was asked to spare a handful of Jews of Portuguese origin, he declared, "Jews are Jews...
...West Germany, news of the story came as an embarrassment to Rajakowitsch's wartime superior in The Netherlands, SS Brigadier General Wilhelm Harster. Harster had served eight years as a war criminal in Holland after the war, apparently no hindrance to his employment by the Bavarian Interior Ministry as a legal consultant. Last week Harster was dismissed from his post in Munich-with a pension, of course...
...today there are about 575, with new ones being added at the rate of 100 a year. The reasons for their popularity are not hard to find. Country clubs are expensive and crowded; municipal courses are jammed. Says Assistant Director Roy Holland of the National Golf Foundation: "Standard 18-hole courses are so crowded these days that it takes about five hours to go out and play a round of golf. You can play a nine-hole par-three course in an hour and a quarter. Housewives can rush over to a par-three after they send their kids...
Modest Proposal. Verolme has bought or built three shipyards in Holland and, expanding abroad in a pattern rare in the shipbuilding industry, three others in Ireland, Norway and Brazil. This week he arrives in Mexico to make final arrangements to build and operate a $60 million yard at Mazatlán that will construct tankers for Pemex, Mexico's national oil company. Verolme has also moved into manufacturing engines, textiles, electrical equipment, boilers and tanks. He now employs 10,000 people and has annual sales of between $90 and $130 million...
Only a few years out of technical school, Verolme began selling diesel engines for Holland's Stork Engine Works Moving up to chief engineer, he was asked, after World War II, to plan a reorganization of the company. He ended is report with: "The best reorganization would be to appoint me as your new president-director." When the directors did not agree, Verolme left to found his own engineering works. He heard of a demand for Dutch "Haagsche hopjes" candy in the U.S., raised the money to market a huge shipload, and used the profits to import diesel engines...