Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With virtually no hope left for early lifting of the U.S. embargo on Canadian meat and livestock, Canada made a costly stop-gap agreement to trade her surplus beef and pork to Britain in exchange for New Zealand meat that she can resell to the U.S. (New Zealand cattle are free of the foot-and-mouth taint.) Canada stands to lose up to $10 million this year on the barter, but it is the only immediate way to clear up the glut of meat on the Canadian market. Domestic meat prices have already sagged, giving consumers a temporary break...
Commenting on his recent trip to New Zealand and Australia, Griswould described the pleasantly lackadaisical atmosphere that pervades the island continent. A worker will hold his job for a while, then take, his kids to the sea-shore, and return only when the money runs out, he explained...
...Zealand, on the other hand, is extremely homogenous, according to Griswold. Emphasizing the island's idyllic simplicity, he remarked that it you happen to drive into a certain gas station in the city of Christchurch the prime minister himself is likely to fill up your tank...
...only social distinctions upheld here are among the small native population, the Maoris, who landed on New Zealand in the fourteenth century, Maori families, it seems, pride themselves on which canoe their ancestors came over...
...conjunction with the student unions of Scotland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada and Australia has submitted a list of thirteen proposals to democratise the IUS as preconditions for full participation. NSA was in the midst of negotiations to affiliate with the IUS, though having misgivings about its partisan political activity, when the failure of the IUS to protest the firing upon students and the closing of the universities during the Czech coup and the immediate expulsion of the Yugoslavia student union upon the break with Tito with the Soviet Union caused a halt to negotiations...