Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old monarch succeeded in leaving Crete on Friday after a four-day flight during which a New Zealand bodyguard sometimes battled the Germans only 800 yards behind to cover the escape of the King and his party...
...Zealander named Bernard Cyril Freyberg; he is now 51 and a major general. At 16 he had already made some New Zealand records as a swimmer. Before World War I he was a restless young dentist in San Francisco, called "Tiny" because he was so huge. The Mexican Revolution in 1914 lured him across the Rio Grande on Pancho Villa's side; but he heard of the war in Europe, walked 300 miles to the west coast, earned his way to Britain by winning a swimming meet in Los Angeles and later a boxing match in Harlem. He became...
...full meaning of this statement was made explicit last week by a New Zealand butter-&-egg man named William Goodfellow, who passed across the U.S. on his way to Britain. William Goodfellow, who is managing director of Amalgamated Dairies, Ltd., of Auckland, stated that "about" 24 out of a fleet of 60 refrigerator ships which had plied from New Zealand to Britain via the Panama Canal had been sunk. Said Dairyman Goodfellow: "There are several million carcasses of mutton and lamb [in New Zealand warehouses] awaiting shipment. We also have an excess of 20,000 tons of butter-with...
...right now I shall give the figures, so far as they are known to us, of the evacuation of Empire forces from Greece. Up to the time when evacuation was seen to be inevitable, we had landed about 60,000 men in Greece,* including one Australian and one New Zealand division. Of these, about 45,000 have been evacuated. ... In the actual fighting, principally at Mt. Olympus and around Grevena and Thermopylae, about 3,000 casualties-killed and wounded-are reported to have been suffered by our troops...
...work for the 2,247,633 tons of U.S. shipping (exclusive of tankers) now in ocean service. With Nazi sinkings averaging about 60% more than building of new ships by Britain and the U.S. together (TIME, April 28), ships grow more precious by the hour. In Australia and New Zealand are piled up tons of butter and cheese which England needs desperately. Attempts to move the big Australian wheat crop were abandoned several months ago for England can get its wheat by a shorter haul from Canada. Only a fraction of the 840,000 bales of wool which Britain arranged...