Word: rotterdam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the sea. It was perhaps the worst Dutch disaster since St. Elizabeth's Flood in the Middle Ages, in which thousands lost their lives. In the Frisian Islands to the north, the flood crest went as high as 30 feet. Floodwater lapped at the outlying parts of Rotterdam (pop. 650,000) and poured over Dordrecht (pop. 70,000) a little to the southeast. In a matter of hours, roughly a sixth of The Netherlands' 13,000 sq. mi.-an area where 1,000,000 Dutchmen make their homes-was devastated...
...born German national chess champion; of a heart attack; in Triberg, Germany. Beefy Bogolyubov kept chess enthusiasts the world over in seemingly endless anxiety in 1929 when he took on Dr. Aleksandr Alekhin of Paris in a 25-game world championship match, played in Wiesbaden, Heidelberg, Berlin, The Hague, Rotterdam and Amsterdam-and lost...
...occasion was the opening of the new Amsterdam-Rhine Canal, a 45-mile short cut across The Netherlands that will bring Amsterdam's river traffic 25 miles and 20 hours closer to Germany. In the age-old competition for the rich river traffic, the sister port of Rotterdam, sitting near the North Sea, has always had the advantage. Now, with the opening of the largest inland navigation lock in Europe, and the completion of the canal which was first planned back in 1915, Amsterdam hopes to double its 23 million tons of shipping in the river. Despite...
...Henri Laurens for the Paris Museum of Modern Art. There was a casting of Rodin's huge Gate of Hell to be shipped 13,000 miles to a Tokyo museum, a repair job on three nymphs and two water-spouting dragons from Versailles' fountains, an order from Rotterdam to cast a statue by Zadkine commemorating the city's ordeal under Nazi bombs...
...Netherlands government has replaced the S. S. Volendam, formerly an all-student liner, with the S. S. Grote Beer and the S. S. Zuiderkrus, which sail from New York on June 30 and July 5 and from Rotterdam, September 3 and 4. Cabin space sells for $360 per round trip, while the less squeamish can obtain dormitory banking for $200. Since the pleasantly tarnished reputation of the Volendam is universal, accommodations will be hard to find. An attempt can be made, however, by writing to the Netherlands Office for Foreign Students Relations, 48 West 48 St., New York...