Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days after the Coronation, Stanley Baldwin hastily cleared a table in Queen Anne's Drawing Room in St. James's Palace for an Imperial Conference with the four gentlemen who are his legal equals. New Zealand's Laborite Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage, South Africa's General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, Australia's Joseph Aloysius Lyons and Canada's William Lyon Mackenzie King under the 1931 Statute of Westminster are just as much the King-Emperor's advisers as England's Baldwin. Invited also was Ireland's gaunt Eamon de Valera...
...coast of Europe, skirt that continent up to the jigsaw peninsula and archipelago which separate the North Sea from the Baltic. Over Germany's sandy Frisian Islands it would pass, over the fat fields of Schleswig-Holstein, over the belts (straits) of Denmark to tidebitten Zealand Island on whose eastern promontory, only three miles from Sweden across the Sound, lies clean, quiet Copenhagen. From the plane landing at Kastrup, Denmark's top-ranking airport, would step Denmark's broad-shouldered Crown Prince Frederik and his wife, who was Sweden's pretty, blonde Princess Ingrid...
...novelty in the Baltic, Danes went wild with joy two years ago when His Majesty snipped a ribbon, opened Denmark's Little Belt Bridge, the longest and most important in Continental Europe (3,864 ft.), spanning Fünen, second largest island in the Danish group (Zealand is biggest) and Jutland. Though Danish motor roads are excellent, and railroads (50% Government-owned, the rest with the State as majority stockholder) are efficient, traveling in Denmark means a lot of ferrying. The new bridge, on the direct line between Copenhagen and London, cuts down by nearly 50% the time...
...Brighton, England, New Zealand nosed out China, three matches...
...When the Electra was launched, Lockheed had 200 employes. Last week the payroll was over 1,400, the plant had just been doubled and all factory hands given a 6?-per-hr. raise. Reason: nearly 100 Electras have been sold in the U. S., Rumania, Poland, New Zealand, Yugoslavia, Cuba, Alaska, Venezuela, Mexico and England...