Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some years now elephantine Pan American Airways has been trying to slap down a persistent gadfly, New Zealand-born, onetime barnstormer, Lowell Yerex. But all that the slapping has accomplished so far is to make Yerex, founder and president of TACA (Transportes Aereos Centre Americanos), fly more and buzz louder (TIME, Sept. 28). Last week the buzzes crescendoed before a hearing of the Civil Aeronautics Board when Yerex appeared to ask for a license to fly scheduled routes in what Pan Am considers its exclusive territory-the Caribbean...
...Manhattan (1896), educated at Catholic convents in Manhattan and France. She studied music in Paris, worked for the British Red Cross in World War I. She has followed her Navy husband (now "somewhere at sea") to stations in China, Europe, the West Indies, has traveled in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Malaya, India...
...lets his deputy, quiet, able Roy Maxwell Drummond, handle most of the administrative problems. He likes to pop into the desert headquarters of the debonair Antipodean, Arthur Coningham (whose nickname "Mary" is corrupted from "Maoris," the name of the fierce New Zealand aborigines). He frequently pops into squadron posts and tells maintenance men to ask him questions. They take the Chief at his word: "When are we getting rid of this bloody antiquated lathe?" Air force men of one unit, not recognizing the coatless man who stopped by one morning, started kidding him about the regulation black...
Maryland's Millard E. Tydings spoke for the 39: "This is not altogether our war. If Great Britain, New Zealand and Canada are not going to let their young men go into battle before they are 19 years of age, the United States should not bear that unequal burden...
...return to his post as U.S. Minister to New Zealand, onetime Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley...