Word: hollande
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...Germany should be counting on decisive results from an air offensive against England, the establishment of her air bases in Holland would be an important step forward...
...Holland is a more accessible and more vulnerable target, besides being more difficult of reinforcement by the Allies...
...infant death rate for 1937, says Dr. Gumpert, represents a rise of 1.5% over the previous year in the cities. Manhattan lost 4.5% of its babies; Holland lost 3.8%. And Mother Conti should have a hard job explaining to her son why cases of puerperal (childbed) fever jumped from...
...celebrated an antarctic centenary-the discovery of the Antarctica Continent by Charles Wilkes. To observe this anniversary, Philadelphia's well-heeled American Philosophical Society assembled a group of seamy explorers and scientific greybeards to review a century of U. S. polar exploration. They dined sumptuously (food from Holland's, Philadelphia's famed Negro caterers), but their talk was of privation and of hungry men: Wilkes, Kane, DeHaven, Hall, Greely, Peary, Stefansson, Bartlett and other polar tough guys...
...assume that a slow growing population heads the national economy towards stagnation has no justification in fact. It is significant that the most impressive housing developments of recent years have taken place in nations with slow growing or almost static population-notably Great Britain and Holland. This is significant for us because housing can mean to American economic life, in the next twenty-five years, what the automobile industry meant to the last twenty-five years. And better housing is but one of a long array of unsatisfied wants that we can take steps to meet if we can only...