Word: hollander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spring-Air Co. (mattresses) of Holland, Mich, informed its employes: "The name 'Spring-Air' . . . stands for buoyancy, for joyousness, for health and boundless, wholesome growth and happiness. Our products express these thoughts. For our own good, our words and thoughts should do so, too. Let's plan on Peace, think Peace, live Peace...
Rufous, rotund Sergeant Alvin C. York, backwoods schoolteacher who became U. S. World War Hero No. 1 by capturing 132 Germans singlehanded, predicted that World War II would be short, set a 30-day time limit before the "great Hitler disappearance" into Holland...
...electrification as it does in all fields of electrification. . . . In percentage of farm electrification it must be compared with areas like Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, South Africa, Russia or China, and it far exceeds any of these areas in farm electrification. If small countries of dense population, such as Holland, Denmark, Japan, etc. are to be considered, they should reasonably be compared with small areas of the U. S. with somewhat comparable density of population. . . . Farm electrification statistics of the various countries are not fully comparable. Foreign farms reported as having electric service are not all actually taking it, since...
...with cots for which passengers eagerly paid cabin fare. In London one badly scared girl offered to buy her own bedding if a ship would sell her space anywhere aboard. Cluett, Peabody & Co.'s President Chesley Robert Palmer & family, who had crossed in a de luxe suite on Holland-America liner Nieuw Amsterdam, on the homeward passage shared three deck mattresses. To get ailing Steelmaster Charles M. Schwab, his nurse, valet and physician accommodations, Ambassador Joseph Kennedy had to intervene. Others who squeezed in just under the sellout: Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr.; Financier John Pierpont Morgan...
...confidence in old Dr. Hendrikus Colijn, thereby throwing out a Ministry that had lasted two days. Basic issue was unemployment relief: Catholics and Socialists wanted to know why, if the Government could spend $165,000,000 on three new cruisers, it could not spend $17,000,000 on Holland's 350,000 unemployed...