Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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North American Philips is an invasion force, one of the newest arms of Holland's rich, world-powerful N. V. Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken (Incandescent Lamp Works Co.), of Eindhoven. Back of North American Philips are $250 million in assets, brains, familiarity with cartel pricing agreements and patent pools that in a generation made Philips of Eindhoven virtual master of Europe's radio and light-bulb industry. N.A.P., born in 1942, is already a tough baby...
When war again broke out, Philips interests were everywhere. As the Nazis swept into Holland, Philips Chairman Anton Frederick Philips, 71, and Managing Directors P. F. S. Otten, Dr. H. F. Van Walsem, and O. M. E. Loupart escaped from the Hook of Holland in a British destroyer. They had already set up trusts in Britain and the U.S., to keep control of properties the Nazis might miss. But their greatest assets were carried under their hats. They moved on to Curasao, in the Netherlands West Indies, set Up headquarters there. Only Anton's son, Frits, stayed in Eindhoven...
...cross between two bee varieties (Carniolan and Italian), the Squamish bees were brought to the Squamish River Valley from Holland 35 years ago by a Belgian immigrant. Now there are some 50 colonies of about 60,000 bees each. To protect the strain, the British Columbia provincial government has barred the importation of other bees into Squamish Valley. Entomologists fear that because the Squamish is a hybrid, its reluctance to sting may not last. But Feedham believes that by long breeding it has now become a distinct new strain. He looks forward hopefully to a honey-producing bee so gentle...
...Ruhr (9,000,000 tons of hard coal and 4,000,000 tons of brown coal), the needs of Germany's throttled industry will also be far less. No one can yet estimate how much, if any, coal will be left for export to France, Belgium and Holland...
Assistant Provost Marshall General H. M. Bryan USA, in his address to the officers, said that CATS were serving in Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Austria, and in the Phillippines and other areas taken by American troops in the Pacific Theatre. Eventualy, he said, CATS officers would govern conquered peoples in the heart of Tokyo...