Word: netherlands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Persian Gulf it does have a great potential supply of crude (see p. 21). Development was started in 1931 and a big refinery is under construction. Yet last year California Standard was able to sell only 1,300,000 bbl. of Bahrein oil. In Saudi Arabia and the Netherland Indies the company has other concessions which may develop into rich producers...
...days before last week's performance the prima donna from Jellico, Tenn. kept to her suite in the Hotel Sherry-Netherland, refusing to speak lest she tire her voice. On the stage she exhibited more grace and confidence than she did at her debut in 1928. Otherwise her progress was unnoticeable. Her voice, at best, is naturally ingratiating. But it is still technically insecure, often feeble and rasping when she strives for top notes, empty and meaningless when she tries to sing...
Many a German gangster is called Dutch. Example: ''Dutch'' Schultz. The Pennsylvania "Dutch" are of German, not Netherland descent. In the rumbling language of the Netherlands (Nederlandsch taal) there is no such word as "Dutch." But it has taken Adolf Hitler to make "Dutch" an issue among phlegmatic Netherlanders...
...Hague last week Her Majesty's Government issued a circular declaring that "the word 'Dutch' must be replaced by 'Netherland' to remove the possibility of disadvantageous confusion." Ever alert for her trading subjects' welfare, Queen Wilhelmina was said to be personally behind this move to wake up Dutchmen to their boycott peril. That Adolf Hitler aspires to absorb the Netherlands Her Majesty firmly believes, has taken steps accordingly. She permits Dutch Communists to jeer at her when she opens Parliament but has outlawed the Dutch Nazi Party...
...arrived on the Ile de France with a manager, a pianist, a violinist, three maids, 23 trunks, 50 pieces of hand luggage, a 12th Century Buddha and a $6,000-per-week contract. Awaiting her were a Sherry-Netherland penthouse, a show called Continental Varieties, a brand new night club on the 65th floor of the R. C. A. building, Rockefeller Center. Producers Arch Selwyn and Harold B. Franklin congratulated themselves when, a week before the Varieties opened, every $8.80 seat in the house had been sold. Rockefeller Center was proud of its Rainbow Room, with its high glass walls...