Word: netherlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy and grandson of the late John Jacob Astor; he is also the spiritual heir of a hundred proud Orthodox princes of Muscovy. Ivan's father, Prince Serge Obolensky, renounced his own Czarist title to become a U.S. citizen, eventually became manager of Manhattan's Sherry-Netherland Hotel. But even though Colonel Obolensky married an Episcopalian Astor, he brought his son up strictly in the Orthodox faith and hoped he would marry...
...married in a swirl of cream satin, rolling organ music, popping flashbulbs and happy smiles. When that ceremony was done, the newlyweds trooped down to Manhattan's Russian Orthodox Cathedral, there were married all over again with double crowns and crown bearers. A brilliant reception at the Sherry-Netherland's Chanteclair Room added the final touch of ritual...
Sophie Shanks is a cheerful, God-fearing Negro woman whose only contact with luxury is her night job as a floor polisher in Cincinnati's Netherland Plaza Hotel. She gets home from work in the morning in time to send the eldest of her nine children off to school, and to greet husband James as he leaves their tenement flat for his job on a city garbage truck...
...Comparison of Official and Free Market Rates In National Currencies Per One United States Dollar. Official Bank Rate March 15 Rate in the U.S. Country Austria (shillings) 10 30 Belgium (francs) 46.8 49 Czechoslovakia (koruny) 50 600 Finland (markkas) 135 400 France (francs) 214 370 Italy (lire) 575 650 Netherland (guilders) 2.6 4 Spain (pesetas) 10.5 31 Switzerland (francs) 4.28 3.98 Countries In the Sterling Block England (pound) $4.03 1/2 $3.35 Ireland (pound) 4.05 3.60 Egypt (pound) 4.15 2.80 S. Africa (pound) 4.03 1/2 3.25 India (rupee...
...G.P.s invited 20 specialists to talk to them, crowded in to listen with an enthusiasm that amazed veteran conventiongoers. At every session for four days they filled the Netherland Plaza's meeting rooms ahead of time, stayed late, kept the speakers answering questions afterward...