Word: zealanders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...organize an effective command system. It was no easy job. He had to gear himself to the United Nations' central headquarters in Washington (TIME, March 30) and to a new Pacific War Council which the President created in Washington this week, with equal representation for Australia, New Zealand, China, Canada, the U.S., Britain. He had to find adequate use for the talented, familiar staff which he brought with him from the Philippines* without offending the hospitable but proud Aussies...
...bombs hit New Guinea's Port Moresby, ahead of advancing jungle troops. (see p. 19) Toward the east, along the line the Japs might follow toward New Zealand or eastern Australia, more bombs struck Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. Jap scouts hovered over Australia's northeastern tip and the islands of the Torres Strait. U.S. P-40s based at Darwin met attacking bombers and fighters, knocked several from the sky. Jap warships were reported here & there on the approaches to Australia, but either the reports were mistaken or the Japs were feinting, feeling for Allied naval weakness...
...malarial whites was not clear early this week. But the object of such a move was very clear. From the Solomons the Japs could push southward to the New Hebrides and New Caledonia. They could then use the islands for basing raids against the vital U.S.-New Zealand supply route, or for a naval and air sweep against eastern Australia...
...successes have taken a 7% slice out of the U.S. cinema industry's already shaky foreign market; in normal times, gross film rentals from Japan, China, the East Indies and Straits Settlements amount to almost $6,000,000 (Java alone: $1,500,000). In Australia and New Zealand, 14% more of the industry's foreign revenue is at stake...
...Niagara was sunk by a German mine 28 miles off eastern New Zealand in June 1940. All hands were saved. An Australian salvager, Captain J. P. Williams, found the Niagara in February 1941. From a telephone-equipped diving bell divers directed the lowering of explosives to blast through to the small bullion room in the ship's center. Next they lowered a grab into the murky interior of the bullion room. Last Dec. 7 the job was done. Last week the news finally leaked out: more than eight tons of gold had been retrieved...