Word: surinam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Queen Juliana, scampered off to visit the Western Hemisphere's Dutch territories. Moved by the overwhelming "cordiality of the people'' in The Netherlands' Antilles and Surinam, the princess, slated to become The Netherlands' third queen in a row, was gripped with a tinge of guilt. Wrote she: "How poignant is the contrast between people here and our own lack of interest...
...freight traffic) will open the door for much more foreign competition for U.S. airlines. The State Department got in return rights for U.S. carriers to fly from any point in the U.S. to Amsterdam and beyond (the U.S. now flies from Amsterdam only to Frankfurt) and into and beyond Surinam and The Netherlands Antilles (Pan American already flies to the Antilles). But U.S. carriers belittle such concessions, point out that air traffic between the U.S. and the Antilles is light, and that Amsterdam offers little opportunity for extra European traffic...
...Captains Carousing at Surinam lies a world away from such formal make-believe. Painter John Greenwood, a footloose Boston artist, showed the soft underbelly of Puritanism. Surinam, or Dutch Guiana, was a stopping place on the Yankee merchant circuit. Greenwood spent some years there, put himself in his picture rushing, candle in hand, for the door. Among the other identified portraits is that of Captain Nicholas Cooke (later Governor of Rhode Island), smoking a pipe and talking with Captain Esek Hopkins (later commander of the Continental navy) at the table. Another Hopkins, Stephen (who was to sign the Declaration...
...plan that would pour about $58,240,000 into social and economic development in the next five years. The specific points covered by the plan included completion of the 130,000-acre Boerasirie irrigation and drainage project, rebuilding the main road along the seacoast from the Surinam border to Georgetown through rich sugar-and rice-growing areas, completion of a 4,000-unit housing scheme, and rural electrification. More than half the cash for the program will be provided by long-term loans from British financiers and the World Bank. Most of the remaining funds will come from the British...
...Paramaribo, Surinam, where he signed short-snorter bills...