Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...increased 40% over the last eight years. For the future, Northrop has a contract, which eventually may be worth as much as $500 million, to build fuselages for the Boeing 747 jet. Moreover, foreign sales of the F-5 can only increase. With the expected orders from Belgium and Holland, Northrop hopes that Denmark, Austria and Switzerland will sign up too-just to keep up with the neighbors...
Alexander Orlow, 48, managing director of Holland's Turmac Tobacco Co., has put his love for abstract art to industrial use. "However complicated the operation of a machine may look," he says, "it soon becomes a monotonous routine to a factory worker." Like many another industrial leader, Orlow (pronounced Orlov) figured that boredom was reflected in production figures, so he commissioned 13 painters to produce art for his plant...
...Canadian teachers who want to know more about our class room service may write the TIME Education Program, Radio City P.O. Box 666, New York, N.Y., 10019. Others may write TIME Education Program, 5 Ottho Heldringstraat, Amsterdam 18, Holland...
Hans Brinker, Holland's storybook skating whiz, needn't hock the silver skates - not yet. But the way the Dutch economy is going, the occasion may arise. Holland has a severe balance-of-payments deficit, and with wages up 36.5% in three years and living costs climbing at an annual rate of 5%, the country is suffering worse inflationary strains than any European neighbor...
Much of the difficulty is due to Dutch labor, traditionally docile (a 1959 court, decision actually-made unions liable for losses caused by a strike). Netherlands unions have recently been flexing their muscles in a big way-taking advantage of a situation in which, like many another European nation, Holland is caught between an expanding economy and an inadequate labor force. Unemployment is a negligible one-half of 1%, 70,000 foreign workers have been imported, and the ratio of available jobs to available men presently stands at 5 to 1. Thus, in 1964, Dutch trade unions negotiated an annual...