Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keen Dutchmen representing a Pacific empire of 60,000,000 people; two Frenchmen speaking for 20,000,000 French subjects in the Pacific; a strong delegation from Canada, the last led by Sir Robert Falconer; separate delegations from Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines...
...shut in. Socony meantime was buying Russian oil for India, shipping kerosene from the U. S. Oilmen have long wondered why Jersey and Socony did not forge a closer hookup. The question became more pointed after Socony merged with Vacuum Oil two years ago, adding Australia and New Zealand to Socony-Vacuum Corp.'s Pacific empire. Last week it was learned that Jersey's Teagle and Socony-Vacuum's Pratt were finally hammering out the legal bumps in a plan to merge their Far Eastern properties into a single jointly-owned subsidiary. Although in volume Europe...
...dollar (TIME. July 24). Quietly Mr. Chamberlain took offices across the way from the World Conference, placed himself at the disposal of dominion delegates and proceeded to argue them down. The final session lasted 90 minutes, ended in an Empire Declaration pledging the Mother Country, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa to strive for: 1) A further rise in Empire wholesale prices to be stimulated by Empire Government policies of "low rates of interest and an abundance of short-term money . . . within the limits of sound finance" and with inflation "depreciated...
...color of the dorsal and pectoral fins, has a round, narrow, sharp beak, is more properly called a spearfish. Marlins roam the trop ical Atlantic waters, are also found off the coasts of California, Hawaii, Japan, the Antipodes. The largest fish ever caught with rod & reel was a New Zealand black marlin weighing 976 lb., hooked in 1926. The sport of catching swordfish on a hook instead of by harpoon is comparatively new. The sport of catching them off Montauk Point, L. I., and nearby Block Island is even newer, although broadbills are found the world over...
...pole vault. Hallowell will be out to lower Lowe's meet record of one minute, 53 4-10 seconds in the 880 yard run with J. B. White '34 and Captain-elect J. M. Morse '34 giving him a stiff battle. Lovelock, a great distance runner from New Zealand, should win the mile run for the Britons if he can approach his best time of four minutes, 12 seconds in that event. Oxford is also sending Lang, Dunean an Mabey while Ivanovie, Stothard, Horan, Davis, Thornton and Marsh are to represent Cambridge against the Americans...