Word: hollander
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...roar. Soon the air trembled with it; across the bright blue sky rumbled 33 of the shiny, potbellied transport airplanes that the Air Force calls Flying Boxcars. The planes were low-at only a thousand feet-and in tight Vs of three. As they passed slowly over "Drop Zone Holland." a two-mile clearing in the dull green forest, they began spawning paratroopers...
Later, under Dr. John Fell,* it started its paper mill, began buying type from Holland, was "furnisht with Arabick, Hebrew, Greek, Latin & English matrices, as also letters in the Aforesaid languages." Finally, after the slump that brought on Blackstone's blast, the Press slowly began to achieve its present size and shape...
...Anglican pamphlet drew most of the fire, but Father Thomas Holland, vice-superior of England's Catholic Missionary Society, had a term for the Archbishop of Canterbury too, "The Strange Samaritan." The archbishop's rebuke to Roman Catholics, noted Father Holland in the Catholic Herald, had come just after some highly sympathetic remarks by the archbishop about the plight of the church in Poland. "Against the background of the Polish persecution. The Strange Samaritan has gently poured in acid...
...covers 115 countries, but Stuart is hustling to capture a bigger share of the world milk market. General Milk Co., a Carnation affiliate in which its competitor, Pet Milk Co., has a 35% interest, recently opened its second plant in Germany and will shortly open others in France and Holland, and possibly Brazil and Spain...
...French perfume industry with most of its flower essences. Grasse was harvesting a bumper crop of 1,320,000 lbs. of jasmine blossoms. This could only cause trouble because: 1) there was already a surplus left over from last year; 2) cut-rate jasmine essences from Italy, Spain and Holland have been cutting into the Grasse market; and 3) some natural essences (violet, lilac, lily of the valley) have been driven from the market by cheaper and better synthetic scents made in Germany and Switzerland...