Word: australia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble, later crashed at Gwelo, Southern Rhodesia. This left two planes in the air, one a big, twin-motored Envoy flown by Pilot Max Findlay with three companions, the second a small single-engined Percival Vega Gull flown by Pilot Charles William Anderson Scott, winner of the 1934 England-Australia air race, and Co-Pilot Giles Guthrie...
...into 30 languages, including Esperanto. A bibliography published in 1930 listed 525 translations of Sinclair's works in 34 nations, and 200 titles have been added since then. A library census in Sweden established Sinclair as the most popular author in that country, and a newspaper vote in Australia showed him runner-up to Dickens. Despite such far-flung successes, he has had to publish many of his U. S. works himself, says that he lost $30,000 distributing The Brass Check after every publisher rejected it, and was in debt for ten years as a result...
Ever since we discovered TIME in Australia 18 months ago, we have been constant and avid readers of your publication...
...Manhattan entries closed for a unique event which its promoters hope will restore road racing to its onetime prestige: a .400-mile Columbus Day race for a new Vanderbilt Cup, on Roosevelt Raceway at Westbury, L. I. A field of 63 drivers, representing England, Italy, France. Germany and Australia as well as the U. S., will start qualifying trials this week...
Artificial impregnation of animals is no novelty. In England, Australia, Russia, the U. S., cows have dropped calves after fertilization by the hand of man. Artificial insemination of mares is a routine demonstration at veterinarians' conventions (TIME, Aug. 24). Safely under way this week, however, was an experiment in man-managed fertilization of cattle which was unique for the 6,000-mile distance between sires and dams...