Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a steady stream of war matériel was flowing, much of it by air, from British bases in the lower Middle East to new ones in Greece. Some said many Australian and New Zealand troops were going, too, though Britain denied this, saying her only ground troops in Greece were military police and air-base guards. But besides military help, Greece was going to need food, fuel, money. Over her loomed not only the shadow of Germany on the northeast but cold and hunger at home...
Signed with the call letters of the 16,698-ton New Zealand freighter Rangitiki, just after noon one day last week, this ominous radio flash was followed after 99 minutes by one from the 4,952-ton British freighter Cornish City...
...Falkland Islands possessions, declared it under the Union Jack. This gained a semblance of international recognition when Britain was able to slap a tax on all whales tried out in British Antarctic bases, enforce it until floating factories were introduced. Thus encouraged, Britain claimed a similar wedge for New Zealand in the Ross Sea area, to reinforce the hazy, unofficial claims of its hero explorers, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton and Admiral Sir James Clark Ross. Then Australia claimed a slice of its own to the west...
...animal muggery. Others (the wave and cloud sequences of Bach's Fugue, and a queer series of explosive music visualizations performed by a worried and disembodied sound track, posing diffidently on the screen like a reluctant wire) recall the abstract cinemovies made about five years ago by New Zealand-born Len Lye, show how musical sensation may be transferred to visual images...
Still rolling with fate's and Pan Am's blows, Am Ex held to its schedule, last fortnight threw a gay party in New Orleans' famed Antoine's. There to meet city and State officials was New Zealand-born, hard-hitting, one-eyed Lowell Yerex, founder and president of TACA. Purpose of the banquet was to dramatize Am Ex's request to CAB for a New Orleans-Panama route across the Gulf via Guatemala. New Orleans papers, envisioning their city as an international airport, played ball. Next morning the respected Times-Picayune ran a four...