Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anent the New Zealand egg story [TIME, Feb. 13]. No marvel to readers is the fact that bedridden Harold Ryder "set" on a chicken egg and succeeded in hatching it. Any constantly warm location would have done the same for said egg. The marvel lies in the fact that Mr. Ryder, who probably weighs between 100 and 200 pounds, was able to lie abed with an egg for 25 days and nights and not so much as crack the shell...
Thomas Gardiner ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran of the White House Janizariat went to Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore), had his appendix removed. A friend who keeps up with doings in New Zealand (see p. 72) sent him one dozen fertile hens' eggs to take into bed with him and hatch out*-during his forced absence from plots & plans in Washington...
...Waikato, New Zealand, hospital, Harold Ryder got bored lying in bed. To while away the time, he asked for a fresh egg, "set" on it steadily for 25 days, hatched a healthy white Leghorn chick...
...Grace Pailthorpe is tall. Mr. Reuben Mednikoff is small. Dr. Pailthorpe is the daughter of a stockbroker. Mr. Mednikoff is the son of a peasant. She is 48, he is 32; she a doctor, he a commercial artist. She has spent some time bushwhacking in New Zealand; he has spent much of his brushwielding in London. Both have bright eyes, great energy, and perfectly terrific subconscious minds. Fate threw them together at a party five years ago, and they have been working together ever since on the Cornwall coast. Last week the fruit of those years-65 of the goofiest...
...effect, the plan was to improve the balance of trade (difference between exports and imports) by reducing imports. Applied in practice for the first time fortnight ago, exchange control appeared virtually to bar all imports from Japan (perhaps in retaliation for Japan's refusal to buy New Zealand wool), and cut other imports from 20% to 80%. British imports were cut least. The policy had the same effect as extremely high tariffs, except that restraining pressure was put on local importers rather than on foreign businesses...