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...Travel to France and Holland is discouraged because of the shortage of housing, transport and food in those countries. All travelers were warned that they might not be able to get home from Europe for many months (returning troops will fill all available shipping space...
Some 3,000 civilians sailed from Manhattan for Europe last week. The Cunard White Star Line's Queen Mary took out 1,228; the graceful old Aquitania (probably the only four-stacker remaining afloat) carried 483; the Holland-America Line's Nieuw Amsterdam had 500 aboard...
...machinery and other capital goods taken from the British, French and U.S. zones would also go to Russia - 10% outright, 15% in return for payments (over five years) in shipments of food, coal, potash, etc. Britain, the U.S., France and such other claimants as Holland, Belgium and Norway would share the remaining 75% of loot from southern and western Germany...
...London had a foreign king, a nourishing stock exchange, a wealthy merchant class, and a war with France. All four sorely needed a bank. Harassed, Holland-born King William III of Orange, whose war-financing was down to the level of the nation's hock shops, asked a willing Parliament to approve the establishment of a Bank of England. Soon after, a corporation was formed and ?1,200,000 raised by public subscription. With 19 employes, and a dim consciousness of its mission, the bank opened for business in Mercers' Chapel. In 1734 it moved to a building...
...Even in Holland, though they were "industrious and frugall," they had nearly foundered. In America they would certainly have starved without a cache of Indian corn, which they providentially and promptly appropriated. "Sure it was God's good providence," wrote Bradford. When the corn was used up, their first Indian friend and convert, Squanto, providentially appeared. Captured by British sailors some years earlier, Squanto had lived in London and spoke perfect English. He had returned to America six months before the Mayflower. Squanto taught the Pilgrims how to plant their corn in small, properly spaced hills...