Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...growth of the South Pacific edition has been especially heartening to TIME. In 1932, we sold 76 magazines a week in Australia and 22 in New Zealand, all of them copies of the U.S. edition, which took about four weeks to get there by boat. In 1946, when TIME International was created, the new Pacific edition went to 3,600 Australians and 900 New Zealanders. Today our circulation in Australia is 74,000 and in New Zealand is 30,000. This week Publisher Davidson begins a tour of both countries to visit our printing plants and advertising offices and, above...
Fully two-thirds of Nauru contains deep deposits of phosphates that are used for fertilizers. These are being dug up and exported at the rate of 1,500,000 tons a year by the British Phosphate Commission, run jointly by Britain, Australia and New Zealand. In return, the commission has installed many facilities on the island and pays the natives a royalty that has just been raised to $15,400,000 a year...
...France had given the winsome Edward a rare chance as Prince of Wales to mingle with all manner of his future subjects - and they with him. After the war, he traveled the world on a series of triumphal grand tours from Africa to India to the U.S. and New Zealand - representing his father, who ruled the mightiest empire ever assembled...
...race was won by New Zealand's Denis Hulme, averaging 75.89 m.p.h. Much of the luster went off his victory in the uproar that followed. U.S. Driver Dan Gurney insisted: "Cars are meant to negotiate a track, not the other way around." But Claude Bourillot, president of the Federation Francais des Sports Automobiles, argued that most European tracks are 50 years behind the times. "We are," he said, "like aviators trying to land Boeing jets on the airfields...
Britain wanted, he said, swift negotiations relating only to "the small number of really important issues," such as the special problems of New Zealand trade, Commonwealth sugar and British capital movements. Of the Common Market's common agricultural policy, which, if applied in Britain, could raise food prices as much as 10%, Wilson quietly acknowledged: "We must come to terms with it." Above all, Wilson showed a determination that reflected support from both parties, from British business and from most of the country* - the kind of national approval that was lacking four years ago, in large part because...