Word: zee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Holland's 18-mile dike in the Zuyder Zee (TIME...
Cause of the general rejoicing and the Marken gloom was the same: Holland remade her geography last week with the closing of the last gap in an 18-mi. dike between Wieringen and Friesland, thus putting an end to the famed Zuyder Zee. Some 500,000 acres of rich farmland will be reclaimed from the sea bottom when pumping operations are completed. The rest will make an inland lake (one-third the size of the original Zuyder Zee), to be known from now on as Ijsselmeer, in which the former fishing fleets of Volendam and Marken will be marooned...
There was one other cheerful report. Minister of Public Works Dr. P. J. Reymer reported last week that work on the draining of the Zuider Zee was progressing ahead of schedule. In one section, the Wieringen polder. 25,000 acres have already been drained, and about 8,000 acres were sown for crops by the end of October...
...Majesty Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Queen of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, appears at an aquatic function, such as the opening of the giant Ymuiden lock of the North Sea Canal (TIME, May 12), she is greeted by "Houzee! Houzee!" contraction for the Dutch naval cheer "Houdt de Zee!" ("Hold...