Word: australia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Touching on external policy he blandly said: "At the moment it is not our intention to change existing relations with the British Commonwealth except in so far as use is made of the same machinery utilized by Canada, New Zealand and Australia. . . . I regret our relations are no better than they were with Britain. The British Government still exacts payments through penal tariffs of a sum of money we say is not due. We do not propose to pay it. The Irish people have not surrendered, and are not going to surrender. . . . However, I am certain that this Constitution will...
...Sydney, Australia, where hospital inmates were kept awake at night by barking dogs, the dogs were silenced by severing their vocal chords. One E. G. Pryce, returning from Russia, declared that Soviet scientists have bred a barkless dog by crossing a Siberian wolfhound with an Australian dingo...
...flight was to "ferry" to England a special racer in which he hoped to enter the Johannesburg Air Race. A low-wing Bellanca with a Wasp Jr. engine, the plane was built as Colonel James Fitzmaurice's entry in the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race to Australia, was disqualified on technicalities. Changes made for Captain Mollison delayed his departure from the U. S. until after the Johannesburg Race came to its sorry conclusion. He decided to fly across anyway to see if he could beat the time of the Johannesburg Race's winner, C. W. A. Scott...
...copies of TIME have piled up, as I have been traveling, and am at the moment in Sydney, Australia. Hence the delay in taking up the letters in TIME, July 13, regarding the Yogi's trick...
...Sydney, Australia...