Word: hollande
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...first time in Paris, and promptly set out on an architectural tour of Europe. They swept through Holland, then went to Berlin, where Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe were working. To this day, Mies refers to 1930 as "the year of the American invasion," for the enthusiasm of the young visitors was almost overwhelming. Two years later, with the blessings of Director Alfred Barr Jr. of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, they organized an exhibition of modern architecture that in its way was as important as the Armory Show had been 19 years earlier. Thereafter...
...denial of any civil rights on grounds of race, creed or color." The plank's most controversial proposal: a federal Fair Employment Practices Commission "to secure for everyone the right to equal opportunity for employment"-a proposal (already law in 16 states) that Florida's Senator Spessard Holland warned would "make it frightfully impossible to carry ten states of the Southland...
...film. It is not hard to think of half a dozen British pictures like it that were better. But the film is enjoyable enough, largely because Eva Bartok, a dark-haired girl of great beauty, is generally on view. The time is 1940, just before the Germans swept over Holland, and the caper is to collect all of Amsterdam's industrial diamonds and spirit them off to London. Peter Finch, Alexander Knox and Tony Britton are the raincoat wearers, and it should surprise no one that a good deal of blood and bedlam intervenes before they...
...setting up plants overseas to compete better in growing world markets. Once overseas, an increasing number of firms, undercut at home by foreign imports, find their cheaper, foreign-made goods just the thing to fight competition in U.S. markets. Royal McBee set up a typewriter plant in Holland in 1953 as part of its world marketing program, but heavy competition in the U.S. from foreign-made, lightweight typewriters forced it to begin shipping a similar, Dutch-made model into...
...costs about $25, a self-winding watch about $40). In Belgium, best buys are handmade lace in Bruges (at Durein) or Brussels (at Diane Dirgent), hunting rifles from Bury Donckier in Liege and cut diamonds in Antwerp, where they sell for 30% to 50% less than in New York. Holland has antique auctions in Amsterdam and at Delft (from Aug. 24 to Sept. 14), specializing in porcelain, silver and paintings. In the Scandinavian countries there are savings of up to 60% on stainless-steel flatware and silver (e.g., Georg Jensen silver costs about 1½ times more in New York...