Word: rotterdam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...import almost all her industrial raw materials, the country nevertheless spurred its production of tiles and potteries, radio and electrical appliances, Diesel engines, chemicals. Amsterdam (and Antwerp in Belgium), are the largest diamond-cutting centres of the world, an operation carried on in plants similar to auto factories. Rotterdam developed into the continent's third biggest port for transshipment of goods and houses sizable shipbuilding yards...
When that line no longer holds, the next retreat is to Amsterdam, leaving a flooded area from Ijssel Lake to the Waal and Maas Rivers to protect the western heart of the country including Utrecht and Rotterdam. Stranded in the middle of this flood would be the ex-Kaiser's home at Doom. Another secondary defense line would back up the main water line, running southwest from Utrecht to Breda, near the Belgian border...
Only one boat slid out of New York's harbor as the President signed his proclamation - the 5,029-ton freighter Black Gull, of the Black Diamond Lines, bound for Rotterdam and Antwerp via the English Channel. But within 48 hours the Maritime Commission had tentatively approved an application from the United States Lines to transfer registry of nine ships to the Republic of Panama. Under Panamanian registry they could go merrily on carrying cargoes to Europe's belligerents...
...reached Rotterdam that evening, and after spending the night at The Hague and one on board the Dutch steamer Batavier V, left Rotterdam in the early hours of Thursday morning, the sixth of September. We arrived at Gravesend about six p. m. that evening...
...weeks to kingdom-come. Italian liners, after hugging home ports since the outbreak of war, took to the sea again on schedule, but avoided such danger ports as Cannes and Gibraltar. Holland-America was still running full tilt, but on the eastbound trip sailed directly to Antwerp and Rotterdam. Swedish American cautiously shifted to more northerly routes, tacking as much as two days to its timetable...