Word: zealanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troops in the Southwest Pacific have received more than 100,000,000 lb. of food from Australia and New Zealand; almost no food is now shipped from the U.S. to South Pacific war theaters...
...Correspondents Dick Tregaskis, I.N.S.; Robin Miller, New Zealand War Department; Jack Bowling, Chicago Sun; Bob Cromie, Chicago Tribune ; Ralph Morse, LIFE; Henry Keys, London Daily Express; Bill Hippie, A.P.; J. A. Bockhurst, News of the Day; H. E. Astley Hawkins, Reuters; and myself wish you all a Happy New Year from Guadalcanal...
...Argentine yachtsman, Vito Dumas, sailed his 30-ft. yacht into the harbor at Wellington, New Zealand, last week after a lone voyage of 13,000 miles from the Rio de la Plata. Time: 159 days. His first question was: "Has Argentina declared war yet?" Told that Argentina was still anchored in neutral waters, lone Yachtsman Dumas made ready to sail on across the South Pacific to Chile...
...simply trade jealousy. Thus, U.S. service to Alaska is dependent upon Ottawa's permission to fly over Canadian soil. Early transatlantic services dickered with Portugal for landing rights at the Azores. In the South Pacific Australia-bound Pan American was blocked 1,300 miles away at New Zealand until after Pearl Harbor. So far the U.S. has failed to permit TACA and British West Indian Airways to make scheduled flights into Miami because their head, New Zealand-born Lowell Yerex, is a British subject...
...Last January there were 2,836 long, short and medium wave transmitters in the world (North and Central America, 1,398; South America, 508; Europe, Russia and Turkey, 472; Asia, 216; Oceania, Australia & New Zealand, 165; Africa, 77). This showed a six-year increase of some...