Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that charged fastest was Foxzami, a four-year-old bay colt bred in New Zealand and owned by a retired Sydney automobile spare parts dealer. Foxzami, whose fanciers had got odds of 16 to 1, won by a length and a half. The winner's purse: 8,750 Australian pounds...
Countries in the exchange are Belgium, Burma, France, Greece, Iran, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, The Philippines, and The United Kingdom...
Dollars from Britain. A year after their marriage Faie and Bill Joyce went to England, and made the first of their international deals that now include licensing arrangements in England, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, Mexico and Peru. The home office delivers the design, advertising and selling campaigns-and production know-how. Joyce's British partners, for example, after training at his Pasadena plant, managed to boost their own man-hour output by 50%. The result: Joyce footwear that sells in the U.S. for $2.95 to $10.95 sells for only a little more in Britain, which is about half...
...Parlor. Last year Olsen & Johnson invaded Europe to satisfy a lifetime ambition to play in Scandinavia (Olsen is of Norwegian descent; Johnson, Swedish). They were so successful in London that the show never got to the Continent. One Hellzapoppin road company is still in England; another is touring New Zealand. Both men have invested their huge earnings (they grossed $227,000 in 16 nights in Chicago; $387,000 in 14 days in Toronto) in real estate and in such enterprises as a string of frozen-custard stands on Long Island and an ice-skating rink in California...
That was after three hours, 57 minutes. Half an hour later, John boated Louis' fish-the biggest black marlin ever caught: 1,006 Ibs. It was 30 pounds heavier and more than a foot longer than the record-breaker caught in New Zealand's Bay of Islands...