Word: hollande
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...totally wrong war was a self-born evil, and therefore no good can come from it. Every country involved must come to a conference table before irreparable damage has been done. ... If the world does not pause on the brink of catastrophe, all nations will suffer the same fate. . . . Holland has received assurances from the belligerents that her neutrality will be respected, if Holland herself remains neutral...
...Holland-America Line last week withdrew indefinitely from service its No. 2 liner, Statendam, laid her up in Rotterdam away from risk. The No. 1 Dutch liner, Nieuw Amsterdam, after four unprofitable Bermuda runs, is now on cruise duty to the West Indies. With the Queen Mary and Normandie tied up in New York, the Bremen and Europa in Bremerhaven, no nation, belligerent or neutral, is now risking its big expensive liners in northern waters...
...City is negligible. The addition of some 8,000 to its 7,500,000 inhabitants will not even make a ripple. But for airline travelers, North Beach has a substantial benefit: passengers will reach Grand Central in 20 minutes, instead of 55 minutes from the Newark Field through the Holland Tunnel...
...have already mastered the U-boat." But these words went out to the tune of more titanic explosions, under the hulls of Pilsudski, the 14,294-ton flagship of the Polish merchant marine, chartered by the British Government when Poland disappeared, and of Spaarndam, 8,857-ton Holland-America freighter in the Thames estuary. Aboard Pilsudski, torpedoed northwest of Britain, were only her Polish crew and some British cooks, of whom seven perished. Captain Mamert Stankiewicz, injured by the explosion, waited until the last instant before diving from his bridge into the icy sea. He died on a rescue ship...
...King William I invested $1,600,000 in the East. Large profits accrued, the capital multiplied many times again. Wilhelmina, an astute business woman herself, is a large owner of tin mines, just as she has a moneyed finger in the pie of nearly every enterprise of magnitude in Holland. Her income was once estimated at $5,000,000 a year, making her by far the richest monarch of Europe...