Word: australia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aviators Smith and Bronte were skimming the Pacific, westward bound, a less sensational but no less important event was taking place in Honolulu, chief city and capital of Hawaii. Here was meeting the Institute of Pacific Relations, an unofficial but distinguished gathering of representatives from Japan, from China, from Australia, from Great Britain and from the U. S. The purpose of the conference was the interchange of information and ideas concerning Pacific problems, particularly with respect to relations between the Occidental and Oriental populations in U. S. and British insular possessions. Special attention was also to be given...
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York returned last week from their Australian tour (TIME, Jan. 17 et seq.), in the course of which they inaugurated the new Federal Capital of Australia at Canberra (TIME, May 16), and circumnavigated the globe...
...Australia was being invaded by a fleet of hostile airplanes, said Station 5-CL. The planes had just been sighted, pouncing and swooping in from the North. A few moments later the station told that the invading air navy was dropping poison gas bombs, flame throwers, and showers of poisoned darts. For ten minutes the vision of horror and destruction was conjured up with more and more terrifying realism. Then Station 5-CL blandly announced that there was not one word of truth in its "program," which had merely been put on "because of complaints that the usual features offered...
...South Australia, with a population of 543,122, ranks fourth most populous among the eight states and territories which comprise the Continent: New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, North Territory and Federal Capital Territory. Although the area of Australia (2,974,581 sq. mi.) is about two-thirds that of the U. S., the total population (5,929,288) is only slightly more than that of New York City (5,873,366). * Regions North of Australia are: British Siberia; and the Union of Socialist Soviet Islands ; Japan ; Korea ; China ; Manchuria ; Siberia; and the Union of Socialist...
...McPherson, born near Ingersoll, Ontario, in 1890, ran away from home in 1907 (at 17) to accompany one Robert Semple, evangelist. They barnstormed the tabernacles of Canada, China, Australia. The man died in 1911-a month before Roberta Star Semple was born. The widow pet-named her baby "Star of the East...