Word: friesland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest is the Wacht im Westen, which resembles the Frankfurter Zeitung; smallest the Armee-Kurznachrichten, a single half-size sheet of Army notices. The Air Force has its own paper, Der Adler von Friesland (The Frisian Eagle...
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...