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Over the Tulips

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Two of The Netherlands’ top plant pathologists arrived in Washington, D.C. last week on an important commercial mission, because U.S. wanted to cut tulip bulb shipments.

Two of The Netherlands’ top plant pathologists arrived in Washington, D.C. last week on an important commercial mission. They were there to talk the Department of Agriculture out of limiting imports of Netherlands bulbs (1946 imports: $8,000,000). The department wanted to cut bulb shipments to “amounts needed for propagationā€¦

Ruddy Old Gent

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A book has been published about the managing director of Royal Dutch Oil company, Mr. Deterding.

Hendrik August Wilhelm Deterding, third son of a Dutch sailor, went into an Amsterdam bank at the age of 16 and fell in love with figures, quit after six years because banking was too slow a way up in the world. He went to the East Indies, worked for theā€¦

Petticoat Philanthropy?

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A 10 million guilder gift from Henri Deterding, in form of Dutch cattle, greens and fruit, for the food-starved nazi’s, has to be seen as a “non-political and exclusively humanitarian” gift.

Six months ago swart, dynamic, 70-year-old Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, Director-General of Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., one of the world’s largest producers of crude petroleum, married his third wife, Charlotte Mina Knack, a German (TIME, June 15).
Sir Henri, who was knighted by King George V in 1920, has for many…

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