Word: rotterdam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Indies that are trapped between rising expectations and falling commodity prices. No development specialist has been more active than Jan Tinbergen, an obscure Dutchman ("I never gave an interview in my life," said he last week, in his first interview). From his Netherlands Economic Institute in Rotterdam, Tinbergen dispatches experts to 50 countries, where they preach the doctrines of economic planning. Recently he set up branches of his institute in Bangkok and Cairo...
...Germany paid only one-third of the cost, though nine-tenths of the canal flows through its territory. When the project is linked up with the Sâone and Rhône rivers through a complex system of canals, it will provide an unbroken waterway from Marseille to Rotterdam, a route first visualized by the Roman generals Nero Claudius Drusus and Gaius Antistius Vetus some 2,000 years...
...Holland, as well as among Denmark, Norway and Great Britain, all of whom front on the North Sea. Hope that these five nations could deal objectively with the issue looks dim. "It seems to us that countries that in past ages have had only trouble from the sea," said Rotterdam's Algemeen Dagblad, "now should be allowed to have full profits from that sea." With similar reactions echoing through other capitals, the signs were for a hot and disputatious summer along the sandy shores of the North...
...know who we were. Which is not to say we overrated ourselves, as the seaman doesn't stand too high. But having been flung about we knew how to roll; and lost in the cold woods outside Antwerp or thrown into polite high living at the AMVJ in Rotterdam, we could stand with these formidable foreigners and make conversation, and get the hell back. That skill is the traveller's; but we weren't travellers, really, and for us the skill was a measure of maturity...
...hardly that grim. Remembrance, what I have excluded, tends to flood back; the Mass River at night, with lights from cranes cutting the sky as though Rotterdam expected the bombers again; Curacao in the early morning, dry caked and smelling of oil; the union hall and the member who motions to "Kick all the winos, finks, and faggots out of the NMU!" (Curran replied "What d'ye want, a non-paying union?" General laughter...