Word: hollands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York market during the past fortnight nearly 11,000 skins of house (Satis, among other items, changed hands in one day. Black cat pelts from Holland sold for as much as $1.02 each. For civet cats, even higher prices ruled; "Nos. 1 and 2 Iowa" reached $1.20, and "ringtail cat" rose...
...Great Britain, in proportion to the size of the two countries, as they have in Denmark, there would now be 750,000 more workers on the British land than are engaged at this hour. If you take Germany as a basis, there would be 1,000,000 more; if Holland then 1,750,000 more, and if Belgium 2,000,000 more? that is, if we had devoted the same care to the possibilities of the soil, as they have done in these countries, there would be no unemployment problem of any magnitude to disturb and threaten our national life...
Last week the green-coated police of Berlin detected and waylaid a package addressed to ex-Kaiser Wilhelm, Doorn, Holland. The package was about the proper bulk and proportions to contain a cartwheel. Was Wilhelm building a rustic cart? Had he found the wheels too much...
...shocked when pretty, dimpled Miss Pattie Field, age 24, of Denver, was last week assigned as Vice-Consul at Amsterdam, Holland...
...Peking Government issued formal invitations. They were layed down by her diplomats in the foreign offices of Great Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, Holland, Belgium, Japan and the U. S. They requested the honor of the presence of representatives of those governments in Peking on Oct. 26, at customs conference in accordance with the nine power treaties recently ratified (TIME, Aug. 17). The conference promises to be a milestone in the history of modern China...