Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marriage, founded on a slip of the pen, somehow survives years & years of dull quarrels, lots of showy New Zealand background, one of the jolliest earthquakes ever filmed, a rip-roaring attack by Hollywood Maoris (who all seem to be named "Hemo"), and the limited advances, with flaring nostrils, of Mr. Heflin, who cherishes quite a yen for his business partner's wife...
...Balmoral; little tableaux; a battle scene at Cape Matapan, some musical emblems, Cupid holding the bride's and groom's initials, the crest of the Royal Navy, the badges of the ATS and the Girl Guides, a representation of H.M.S. Valiant, the badges of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, India and Pakistan...
...explanation of this sizeable total is suggested by a recent dispatch from Robert Sherrod, TIME'S senior correspondent in the Pacific, which began: "As I was saying, before I was interrupted by an 8,000-mile air trip. . . ."Sherrod had hurried to New Zealand from his base in China to cover a spot news story and, returning, had resumed the interrupted background piece he had been writing...
...overseas printing plants. In Canada, Latin America and most of Europe and the Near East the mechanics of getting TIME to its readers on schedule are not greatly different than in the U.S. Nor is it too difficult in such far away countries as Australia and New Zealand. Indonesia, however, and India are another matter...
...Queens joined the Mauretania and old Aquitania in ferrying troops between Australia, New Zealand and Suez. Up to Pearl Harbor, the Queens had carried over 80,000 Empire troops, but their career in war had just begun...