Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...money again. Last year the Ranger netted him a half-million dollars. The program, carried over some 80 MBS stations, and 75 independent stations spotted all over the U.S., accumulated 20,000,000 listeners, innumerable bread, candy and pop sponsors. It also goes on transcribed recordings in Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Canada...
Japan must be kept off balance. Out of Brisbane, Australia into the South Pacific steamed a flotilla of seven U.S. warships-two heavy cruisers, five destroyers. Out of Auckland, New Zealand into the Tasman Sea steamed a flotilla of six U.S. warships-two light cruisers, four destroyers...
...Britain's Empire. Sealed orders were handed to Rear Admiral John H. Newton. With four cruisers, an escort of nine destroyers, he put to sea, there learned that he was bound on a "training cruise" in Australian waters. The squadron split: six ships headed for New Zealand, the rest made for Sydney...
...Asked Congress for another emergency Naval appropriation of $300,841,820. Five days later a U. S. Navy flotilla of two light cruisers, four destroyers showed up in Auckland, New Zealand. Purpose of the trip: "good will and recreation...
WASHINGTON--Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, D., Mont., charged tonight that United States warships are being sent to Australia and New Zealand "to reinforce the British in Singapore and other parts of the Orient...