Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Half. In the Coral Sea came history's first "battle beyond the horizon," in which carriers sent aerial artillery to strike at each other across hundreds of miles of water. Nimitz lost the Lexington but saved Australia and New Zealand...
Donald, trusted and powerful confidential adviser to Chinese leaders from Sun Yat-sen to Chiang Kaishek, turned up last week, safe & sound, in one of the Manila prison camps. He had been a prisoner since 1942, when the Japs caught him on his way back to China from New Zealand via the Philippines. Obviously, he had used a false name to fool his captors...
...deeply interested in people. His cables were filled with descriptions of the men he met-the soft-spoken Marine colonel known as "The Brute," the New Zealand major with a fresco of butterflies and birds tattooed on his chest, the scared troops aboard an assault ship with their faces smeared with green camouflage paint and softly singing as H-hour approached...
Said thoughtful, eloquent Carl A. Berendsen, New Zealand's Minister to the U.S. and veteran of many a League of Nations conference, at a victory rally in Manhattan...
...vast and successful British cooperative societies, which have 9,000,000 members, control 24% of England's retail food sales, feed 42% of the population of Scotland. Saskatchewan's farmers knew that the co-ops also have huge investments in Argentine packing houses and creameries in New Zealand. The good news that Minister McIntosh had to tell the home folks was that the British cooperatives were ready to do more business with Canadian cooperatives. They were prepared as a starter to invest in new hog-processing plants in Saskatchewan. At present their import needs are at least...