Word: hollands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...digging students had heard about John P. Holland, Paterson schoolteacher who, more than a half century ago, helped develop submarine navigation from an affair of iron or copper tubs driven by handscrews to a science of military importance. They had heard how he ventured down under the Passaic River's surface in one of his first models, with a boy to steer while he himself manned the pumps. When craft failed to reappear, divers had rescued Inventor Holland and the boy from the river bottom. The imperfect submarine had been hoisted up, dragged ashore, abandoned. Inventor Holland's late fame...
...John P. Holland was by no means the "father of the submarine." As early as 1775, Inventor David Bushnell made a practical model. Robert Fulton followed Bushnell's ideas with a Nautilus which dived down 25 feet and stayed down four hours, its crew breathing compressed air. The South used submarines in the Civil War and one sank the Federal warship Housatonic though swamped and sunk herself by her torpedo's explosion. The French Plongeur of 1863 was 146 feet long, driven by compressed air motor. The significant features of the Holland experiments were the in troduction of a gasoline...
...Minor. The awards will be apportioned as follows: One first prize ($750), one second prize ($250) and a third prize (honorable mention) to be awarded to winners in each of the following ten zones-U. S.; Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Jugoslavia, Rumania; Denmark, Sweden, Norway; France, Belgium, Switzerland; Germany, Holland; Great Britain; Italy; Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland; Spain, Portugal; Russia, Ukrania. A grand prize of $10,000 will be awarded to the final winner, selected as the best of the first prize winners. The contest will be under the supervision of the Society of the Friends of Music. The awards...
...came despatches that the Vereinigte Stahlwerke (United Steel Works), second in size only to the United States Steel Corp., had signed contracts for a $34,000,000 loan-$30,000,000 to be sold in the U. S. through Dillon, Read & Co., and $4,000,000 in England, Switzerland, Holland, Sweden. An unusual feature of the proposed bonds is that they will draw interest and in addition will get 6½% more for every 1% increase in Vereinigte Stahlwerke's common stock dividend rate. The common rate is now 6%. If it becomes 1%, the new bonds will draw...
...Great Britain and Ireland 1,390,388 841,338 Germany 407,620 148,851 Italy 226,774 287,346 Holland 171,825 148,245 United States 146,846 133,268 France 136,474 153,955 Denmark...