Word: zeeland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attention has just been called to an article in your last week's issue (TIME, March 13) in which you state that owing to cancellation of orders "caused by the bank moratorium, the hatcheries of the Zeeland-Holland district find themselves swamped with chicks...
...Have you also secret gold reserves?" asked the Germans. Modestly M. van Zeeland answered, ''Well...
...Holland & Zeeland, Mich., centres of the baby chick industry, tons of eggs were gestating in incubators, customers were canceling orders by the thousands, and the ground was yellow with peeping, scratching fledglings...
...mission of "doing Europe," has been somewhat complicated by a sudden shortage of funds to meet hotel bills, seek escape by disguising themselves as two Italian organ grinders. Young Gretchen, a burgomaster's daughter, is suspected of wanting to elope in order to avoid marriage with the Governor of Zeeland. She is consequently imprisoned in a haunted mill. The two Americans, ConKidder and Kid Conner, rescue her. This unexpected disappearance from the mill occasions the offering of a large reward. A telegram is at once dispatched to the Hague summoning Sherlock Holmes, containing the declaration "money is no object." Intercepting...
Both M. van Zeeland and the Associated Press omitted one important cause of Belgium's prosperity, her African colonies. Much water has flowed under many bridges since the bold bad days of King Leopold and the rubber atrocities in the Congo. Today the Belgian Congo produces no rubber (plantation rubber is being cultivated to regain the market that wild Congo rubber once commanded), but it does produce enough coffee and cotton to fill a large part of Belgium's needs. Palm nuts and palm oil are the most important assets of the colony, mining excepted...