Word: nieuwe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talk of lifeboats than of books, he spun the yarn behind his whittled model. Invented 20 years ago by his Aunt Maggie's boy, Ivan Fleming, a British naval officer, the Fleming hand-propelled aluminum alloy lifeboat is now in use on 75 merchant ships, including the Nieuw Amsterdam, the Conte di Savoia, the Monarch of Bermuda, Queen of Bermuda, the Stockholm, but not on any U. S. liner...
Satire at present is making a wallflower of sex in the musical field, and Knickerbocker Holiday shrewdly woos the reigning favorite, gives Nieuw Amsterdam and Pieter Stuyvesant a queer suggestion of the New Deal and F. D. R. Dutchman Stuyvesant (Walter Huston) is pictured as a would-be dictator outraging the hit-or-miss "American" who hates political systems, hates to take orders...
...Nieuw Amsterdam, placed in service last May, was first. On the way are Noordam's sister ship, the Zaandam; the freighters Sloterdyk and Sommelidyk...
...thrust aside by Nazis from Germany, much as in Vienna the Austrian Nazis have lost all the biggest plums to German Nazis. Supplementing cables to this effect was a statement by pro-Czech Chairman George Boochever of the American-Czechoslovak Chamber of Commerce, who stepped off the Dutch liner Nieuw Amster dam in Manhattan. "In my talks with Sudeten Germans," said Mr. Boochever, "I gained the impression that they had no real wish to be annexed to Germany. . . . I think Henlein is but the mouthpiece for Hitler's views and if it were not for the propaganda and subsidies...
...work of 15 architects and 50 artists, the Nieuw Amsterdam's, public rooms and cabins impressed U. S. travelers last week with the uniformity of taste lavished on third class, tourist and cabin class alike. Solid, cleanly built furniture, beautiful fabrics, opulent rugs, plenty of light and unobtrusive color harmonies of silver, beige and light yellow were more important to the general effect than the occasional murals and ornamental work in metal, wood and glass. In an apparent effort to make some distinction between tourist and cabin class quarters, the designers gave cabin class passengers a little Coromandel wood...