Word: holland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Assembly and one of France's most vocal supporters in North Africa (TIME. June 10), as he walked toward his car with Paris' director-general of police. In court last week 26-year-old Ben Sadok offered a highly literate defense (his favorite authors: Stendhal, Victor Hugo, Holland. Sartre, Camus). He denied that he had any connection with the rebellious Algerian F.L.N., explained that he had decided on murder the day Chekkal joined the French delegation to the United Nations: "I didn't have anything against him personally, or against his opinions, because I am .naturally very...
...first 71 refugees were the advance guard of what may swell into a flood of thousands of Dutch nationals Indonesia is threatening to expel because the Netherlands refuse to yield West New Guinea. Holland granted independence to other islands in the area...
...interest to maintain the present high level of exports to Mexico. But how can Mexico keep up its imports if the U.S. cuts our ability to pay for them, if we get less for our zinc and lead?" Concluded ex-Diplomat Henry Holland, who was the State Department's Inter-American Affairs chief until last year: "InterAmerican trade is in greater danger than at any time in years...
Next morning the rush to buy on the New York Stock Exchange was so great that 1,270,000 shares were traded in the first hour, the heaviest one-hour volume since May 15, 1940, the day after Holland fell to the Germans. Just as prices began to ease, the Air Force announced a 50% rise in missile spending for fiscal 1959, and the market took off again. Led by air-crafts, it advanced steadily in all groups, ended the day at 439.35 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, up 11.41 points for a $4.2 billion gain in the market...
...Because Holland is such a small country, he may find his group trip takes him to the surrounding countries of Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany as well as various parts of the Netherlands. If so, he will have an opportunity to sense the hostility which many of his Dutch friends still feel for the Germans, despite the formal cordial relations between the two countries...