Word: australia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest piece of foreign financing in immediate prospect is another Australian Government loan, for a sum not yet announced by J. P. Morgan & Co., Australia's bankers, but reported to be between $50,000,000 and $75,000,000. The bonds, which will be the eleventh Australian issue brought out in the U. S. market, will bear 5% interest and will be sold in the neighborhood...
Distance does not lend enchantment to bonds, for Canadian and Newfoundland issues of comparable intrinsic merit sell higher. U. S. bankers, it is true, have come to look upon their northern neighbors as a part of the financial fatherland, whereas Australia, with her vulnerable position in case of a great Pacific conflict, and her slightly rosy tint of political radicalism, is distinctly foreign. As a matter of history, Australia first came to Wall Street because London fell out with the legislators of Queensland* over a certain Land Amendment Act which taxed British pastoral investments despite agreements previously consummated which exempted...
...Bill. All German boys read about Buffalo Bill. He gave me confidence when all my teachers said I would be a burn. So I sold my pet rabbits, changed my name, and started for Hamburg. I sailed on a Russian ship, thinking I would reach American. I landed in Australia and found that the world is round...
...creatures, killed three, caught two more. The live ones he gave to the Bronx Zoo. They soon died and are now being pickled. The dead three he gave to the American Museum of Natural History, whose experts found them to be gigantic lizards, related to the monitor lizards of Australia...
Pearl Harbor, the great strategic naval base of the Pacific, has been erected at the crossroads of the ocean.* Ships from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Panama, Auckland in New Zealand, Sydney in New South Wales (Australia), Hong Kong, Yokohama, Manila arrive and set forth daily...