Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cash & Carry. In Des Moines, a war bride, fresh from New Zealand, labored under a pocketbook heavy with coins, and the notion that she had to change a bill every time she bought something...
Before the partisans could come to blows, the British Eighth Army's crack New Zealand division dashed in and occupied Trieste's strategic waterfront. So long as they remained there, Italians felt, Trieste was not lost to Italy-though the Yugoslavs held almost all the rest of Venezia Giulia, including Fiume. Later, U.S. troops also moved into Trieste...
...Army, which hopes to cut G.I. military chores to a minimum, hopes to have its sport program going full blast in 30 days. If British, French, Polish, Dutch, Australian and New Zealand troops join in as expected, the program may lead to Allied championships that will dwarf the peacetime Olympic Games...
...coherent form. ¶ | Power patterns, shaping up at the conference, foreshadowed the patterns of the world organization. A 14-nation executive committee included the Big Three, France and China, lesser members tied more or less to the U.S. (Mexico, Brazil, Chile), Russia (Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia), and Britain (Australia, Canada. New Zealand). Everyone saw that on the rock-bottom security issues of the future, virtually every small power would be tied to one of the Big Three. But on minor and intermediate issues, the smaller powers kept their independence...
...have helped to fame. Among them are the late Walter P. Chrysler, Curtiss-Wright President Guy Warner Vaughan, Rifle Inventor John C. Garand, Curtis Publishing Company's President Walter Fuller, the C.I.O.'s Philip Murray. Britain's famed Cartoonist David Low got his start in New Zealand with a four-year I.C.S. cartooning course. Recently I.C.S. received a grateful letter praising "the schooling which Dad got from your correspondence course. . . ." The writer: E. N, Eisenhower, brother of the Supreme Commander...