Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Transit of Venus. It is the story of the first and greatest of Cook's tours which John Gwyther, a wartime Royal Navy officer, tells in Captain Cook and the South Pacific. A three-year circumnavigation of the globe (1768-71), Cook's voyage added Australia, New Zealand and a number of South Pacific isles to the then known world. Narrated by Author Gwyther with seadog relish, authority and profound professional admiration, Cook's epic journeyings have the fascination of an Odyssey from Yorkshire...
...next batch of natives, the brave and cannibalistic Maoris of New Zealand, breathed fire. In full fighting regalia, they would yell from their war canoes: "Come to us, come on shore and we will kill you all with our patoo-patoos!" While the Maoris did not brain any of Cook's men with their patoo-patoos (war clubs), Cook got rattled for a rare moment during a sudden Maori foray and ordered his men to open fire. Four of the tribesmen were killed, to the kindly Cook's lasting regret...
...first quarter v. $687,818,000 last year. Latin American nations came next, buying $749,775,000, a gain of close to $40 million, and Canada, the biggest single U.S. customer, bought $692,685,000, a boost of more than $40 million. Sales to Asia, Australia and New Zealand reached $614,195,000, up almost $70 million, and African purchases increased about $41 million...
...imports were 4.3% heavier than they were last year. Again, Europe showed the biggest gain, selling $568,568,000 in the U.S., a gain of better than $100 million over year-ago volume. Imports from Canada went up $43 million, to $579,853,000, while Asia, Australia and New Zealand sold $480,510,000 worth of products here, v. $463,968,000 a year ago. The only drop was in imports from Latin America (most of the decline was caused by lower coffee prices) and Africa...
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