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National Geographic : 1960 Oct
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dam Dry Dock Company, which built the 38,650-ton, 1,456-passen ger Rotterdam, the Holland-Amer ica Line's new flagship (page 530). Another bend, and we came to Pernis and the beginning of the petroleum harbors. The huge drum of a gasoline storage tank rose beside some fishermen's huts. Three cows grazed near by. Here were the giant storage cyl inders owned by Royal Dutch Shell, British Petroleum, Esso, and Caltex. The new refineries are fed from ever-larger tankers-45,000 ton ships now, 70,000-tonners shortly. A new satellite city, KODACHROMES © NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY Sculptor Mari Andriessen's memorial to the war dead stands in City Hall Square (above). The 80 foot fantasy in steel by Naum Gabo (opposite) dominates the Coolsingel, Rotterdam's principal mid town boulevard. No Wheeled Traffic Allowed: The Pedestrian Is King on the Lijnbaan Twentieth-century version of the old market square, the Lijnbaan stretches more than half a mile through the heart of Rotterdam. Hailed when it opened seven years ago as Europe's Fifth Avenue, the pedestrian mall is a quality street of medium-sized specialty stores. It attracts cus tomers from all parts of the Netherlands. Wooden canopies protect shoppers from rain and snow. Cross-awnings divide the promenade into a series of paved courts beautified with flower beds and trees. 546
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