Word: australia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Australia, not without much comment, raised successfully through the House of Morgan $75,000,000. In the South African Parliament the question was debated whether or not the Union should raise a loan in Manhattan or London. Ex-Premier Smuts favored London and the debate ended inconclusively...
Cruising, cruising, the U. S. fleet (TIME, July 13) steamed on and came to Pago, Pago,* Samoa. Anchors were tripped. The first lap of the journey to Australia was completed. Refueling was undertaken, and again the fleet took to the high seas. The voyage from Hawaii to Samoa was broken by frequent maneuvers. The only incident of note took place when an officer, Lieutenant Harry J. Noble of the Medical Corps, aboard the destroyer Ludlow became ill. He diagnosed his case as appendicitis. The Ludlow turned on its course and ran back 30 miles to the hospital ship Relief (which...
Surprise was evinced in some circles that Australia contemplated raising a loan of $100,000,000 through the House of Morgan at Manhattan. This is the first time that the Commonwealth of Australia has proposed to borrow from...
...banks of sargassum weed impeded Columbus for a fortnight on his first voyage to the New World (September, 1492). Improbable tales are told of ships embedded permanently; of seamonsters that make the spot their home. Smaller sargassum drifts are found north of Hawaii, southeast of New Zealand, southwest of Australia...
Somebody said immigrants were badly treated on reaching Australia. Said Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary, to Lord Apsley: "Either you or I will have to go and see things for ourselves." As a day laborer at $5 a week went in strict incognito Lord Apsley, heir apparent to old Lord Bathurst, whose wife was until recently owner of The Morning Post. Last week he came back, said that immigrants were not badly treated...