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...Netherlands, a small nation, has built her seagoing reputation on small ships, solid, sturdy, comfortable. But three years ago, when the Dutch were in mid-depression, Holland-America Line, which had been floundering in red ink, asked for bids on a ship such as the Dutch had never owned. She was to be of 36,000 tons, 750 feet overall-only half the size of such mammoths as the Normandie and Queen Mary, but one of the dozen biggest passenger ships in the world, bigger than any U. S. ship save the late (German-built) Leviathan. Holland-America...
Last week when the Nieuw Amsterdam set sail, the renascent Holland-America Line had already been able to pay back in full the Government's "20year" loan, and only a successful maiden voyage was needed to make black ink blacker still. Half way across the Atlantic, the Nieuw Amsterdam ran into genuine rough weather. Officials aboard beamed with satisfaction. She proved not only seaworthy but exceptionally steady. Three days later, however, they discovered an error in their careful Dutch calculations: Designed to make 21½ knots, the Nieuw Amsterdam did 23 without pushing and as a "seven-day ship...
Guill Aertsen vindicated himself in the high-jump by clearing six feet and thus tying for first place with teammate Bob Haydock. In the broad-jump Rock Hollands upset the dope-sheets by placing second to Hunt Ethridge of Yale. Holland's distance was 22 ft., 5 5/3 inches...
Neat little trucks from Holland's, locally famed Negro caterer, pulled up at the cellar door of the American Philosophical Society's Georgian brick building on Philadelphia's Independence Square last week, disgorging trays of fried oysters, crab cutlets, apple salad and fancy cakes. To sleepy loungers in the Square this was a sure sign that the Philosophical Society, oldest and one of the richest of U. S. scientific bodies, was holding its spring meeting...
ARTHUR COLEMAN Associate Editor Holland's, the Magazine of the South Dallas, Texas...