Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money, I'll eat the "deteriorating diet" of the Maoris of New Zealand and join the modern craze for fruits & vegetables. If more Americans would follow suit, we might better our sorry statistics: three out of four Americans eat an inadequate diet, short on fresh fruits and green vegetables...
...Fujiya Hotel, he glanced out to see a photographer training a long-distance lens on him. He was the man who had come to liberate Japan. But bitterness also followed him. In the Philippines, he was lampooned on the radio and burned in effigy. He flew to Australia, New Zealand, Paris and London...
...answered the Philippines' demand for $8 billion in reparations by pointing out that such reparations in the end would have to come from the U.S., which has already given the Philippines $530 million for war recovery. He quieted Australian and New Zealand fears of Japan by presenting them with a tripartite pact in which the U.S. guaranteed to come to their aid against any future aggression. He listened to British arguments that Japan's recovery would injure Britain's textile trade, shipbuilding business. His answer in effect was that the nations have no right to legislate against...
...Republicans to come out for Ike (TIME, Oct. 23), hopes to become Secretary of State in the Eisenhower cabinet? He wasn't saying. But Dewey's Asiatic tour is taking him to Japan, Korea, Formosa, Indo-China, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand. It was a journey designed to inform him further on a part of the world that is not too familiar to NATO's Eisenhower. And New York State's 97 convention delegates, in Tom Dewey's pocket, make a nice talking point...
Reuters' financial difficulties continued until 1941, when the London press bought in, turned the agency into a cooperative (like the A.P.), which now includes papers in India, Australia and New Zealand. Sir Roderick Jones was replaced by Christopher Chancellor, who had been chief correspondent and general manager in the Far East. He cleaned out the deadwood, pepped up Reuters' flat and often long-winded copy, determinedly turned Reuters away from its old reputation as a voice of the Empire, was knighted for the job. In ten years, Sir Christopher, now 47 and his editor, Walton Cole, 38, have...