Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TRANSPORT RACE is spreading fast among foreign airlines. Holland's K.L.M., first foreign line to sign up, has ordered eight Douglas DC-8s, worth $50 million (total Douglas orders so far: 61 planes v. 50 Boeing 707s), for delivery starting in March 1960. Scandinavian Airlines will soon order from six to ten jets, while Air France, Japan Air Lines and Swissair are all negotiating with Douglas or Boeing...
Playing a harpsichord with two keyboards and seven pedals, Ralph Kirkpatrick presented representative pieces from Baroque masters of England, France, Holland, Germany and Italy. Many of these pieces were stylized dance forms, such as a Galliardo and a Pavana by England's William Byrd. The Pavana was a slowly paced, simple tune adorned with incredibly rapid scale passages and trills...
...familiar hurricane of bitterness, evasion, religious rivalry and newspaper denunciation whirled up around Anneke, as it had around the Finaly boys in France. But in that case (TIME, July 6, 1953) the Roman Catholic hierarchy had helped in getting the Finaly brothers back; it was not so in Holland. Archbishop Bernard Alfrink refused to intervene. Proclaimed the leaders of Amsterdam's Jewish congregations: "Though only a single child is concerned, this case is a measuring rodi for civilization and freedom...
...rival techniques, fads and dead-end experiments. They ranged from the surface violence of U.S. Painter Willem de Kooning's grotesque female portraits to the acrid brilliance of German painters like Fritz Winter, still haunted by Klee and Kandinsky. Paint surfaces varied all the way from Holland's Karel Appel, who trowels on paint like a pastry cook slathering on frosting, to the latest French vogue for tachism (staining), where thin paint trickles down the canvas like spilled...
...Sponsored by Kuhn, Loeb, First Boston Corp., and London's S. G. Warburg, the corporation has 27 participating firms famed in the banking world. Among them: Credit Suisse, David and Laurance Rockefeller, Sal Oppenheim Jr. & Cie. (Cologne), N. M. Rothschild & Sons (London), Deutsche Bank Group (Frankfurt), Amsterdamsche Bank (Holland). The bank's purpose is to buy equity shares in foreign enterprises and furnish risk capital to businesses in countries other than the U.S. and Canada...