Word: rotterdam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land from rooftops, parks or squares in the heart of the biggest cities, are already eliminating that most exasperating aspect of fixed-wing air transport, the long surface trip to outlying airports. The Belgian airline, Sabena, is operating a helicopter service between Brussels, Bonn, Lille, Maastricht and Rotterdam. Helicopter services are carrying passengers and mail in and around New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. City councils all over the U.S. have accepted the theory that the helicopter will not only replace the DC-3 on air feeder lines but may augment the suburban bus as well, and they are dutifully...
BELGIUM'S Sabena airlines began the world's first scheduled international helicopter service between Brussels and Rotterdam, soon will extend the service to Bonn, Cologne and Lille...
...buttress London's confidence, Giskes produced "results" which the British would learn about from other sources. He planted in the Dutch press articles about spurious exploits, staged a spectacular explosion of a junk-laden barge in the Maas River at Rotterdam, and even returned some downed British flyers through Spain, secretly chaperoned by German agents...
Three years ago, Hendrik G. Luitwieler, official restorer for Rotterdam's Boymans Museum, was examining an interesting 15th century painting up for sale. Titled Offering of the Jews, it showed solemn-faced men in bright robes about to sacrifice a lamb. The painter's name was unknown, but similarities in style clearly identified him as the painter of another work, now in the town of Douai, France, showing the Israelites receiving manna from heaven. Art experts call the unknown painter "the Master of the Collection of Manna," believe that he lived in northern Holland...
...fascinating find posed problems. It could be hung so that both sides would be visible, or the two sides could be separated. But St. Peter's paint was flaking. Restoring it, thought museum officials, would not be worth the effort. They decided, to the dismay of Rotterdam's museumgoers, simply to hang the picture back up again the way it was before. Last week the Offering was in place for all to see, while St. Peter's face was turned to the wall, consigned to oblivion...