Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris, a key executive committee of Britain, France, Italy, Norway, and Holland was designated yesterday to spearhead European reconstruction with the aid of four sub-groups...
Dajo gets angry at people who exaggerate: "In Holland, they said the Germans sent a volley of machine-gun fire through my body in a concentration camp. I've never been in a camp...
...first weeks of the war, in which he rolled up a distinguished record. In 5½ years overseas, he took the route marches of the famed "Van Doos" (the Royal 22nd Regiment) in stride, spent nine months in the lines in Italy, then almost a year in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. Colonel Roy finished the war as chief Roman Catholic padre. Dispatches mentioned his "extremely courageous conduct"; he received the Order of the British Empire...
...Teammate Holland, still thinking he had won, shut off his motor, then heard the incredible news: he had finished second. Puzzled and angry, he demanded: "Why did you keep flagging me down . . .? I pulled over and waved at Rose when he went by. ... I figured I was still laps in front." Lou Moore, whose ambition is to be what Racer-Builders Fred Duesenberg and Harry Miller were to the speedway business in prewar days, said nothing. Both his beauties had come home and that was what mattered most...
Welcome Back. Holland made its first postwar test of the U.S. private-capital market with a $20 million bond issue floated by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. The money will be used either to repay an Export-Import Bank credit or for reconstruction. At week's end about 95% of the bonds were sold...