Word: australia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Offering a first prize of $200,000, a second of $100,000, three others of $33,000, the Aero Club of France last week announced plans for a round-the-world air race in 1937 similar to last year's England-Australia contest (TIME, Oct. 29). Start. ing and finishing in Paris in connection with the Paris Fine Arts Exposition, the race will be open to flyers of all nations, will follow in general the route taken by Wiley Post in his 1933 globe-circling record of 15.600 miles in seven days...
...Siam to Saigon in French Indo-China, then 350 miles on to Tourane, finally another 550 miles straight across the South China Sea to Hong Kong. Thus, in the first of six trial flights, Imperial Airways Ltd. sprouted a new branch from its main stem between London and Australia. Carrying passengers and mail, the new service will run twice a week, is significant because it brings the trans-Asian airline within 80 miles of Macao, now planned as the terminus of Pan American Airways transpacific route...
...Short Brothers Ltd. Four-motored, high-winged monoplanes with a speed of about 200 m.p.h., the new transports are expected to make actual by 1937 the program announced in Parliament last December of carrying all Great Britain's first-class mail to & from India, Africa, Singapore and Australia...
...expected that there will be several debates after Christmas, most of which will be broadcast. One of these will be with the university of Melbourne, coming for the occasion to this country from Australia...
...Australia, Eatonia, Siam, and Syria, among others, are represented in the University by students this year, according to figures compiled by Phillips Brooks House. Canada, with 29 students, has the honor of having the largest delegation, while England is matched by China for second place honors, each country sending...