Word: australia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flyer of Australia, Air Commodore Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith has long pestered Imperial Airways to extend their airlines across the dangerous Tasman Sea to New Zealand. Long refused because Great Britain has not succeeded in building any airplane good enough for the job, he last week finally pestered British Aircraft, Ltd. into buying the right to manufacture the famed U. S. Sikorsky Clipper 8-42. Because it well knows 8-42 is far outmoded by the new Martin Clipper, which has three times as much carrying power, United Aircraft Corp. was delighted to get some...
...merger of two typically New England Enterprises, United-Carr began its corporate life in 1929, when its gadgets piled up profits of $568,000. Today the company operates plants in England, Canada, Australia and Luxembourg, where its subsidiary is called Societe Anonyme des Etablissements Ri-Ri. Profits showed a drop for three years after the merger but turned upward after 1932. Last year United-Carr reported earnings of nearly $500,000. And by last summer the company felt prosperous enough to borrow...
When the Rhodes-founded British South Africa Co. refused him land, he turned to Australia. There, on a capital of £2,000 supplied mostly by Colonial Club members, the first Fairbridge Farm School was started in 1912. In 1924 when it was firmly established on a 3,200-acre farm near Pinjarra, Kingsley Fairbridge died of malaria...
...Australia recent rains have helped a poor crop but wheat acreage there was sharply curtailed this year. When the December harvest is done Australia will probably have relatively little grain for export, and most of that will go to the Far East. Despite rosy reports on its crop, Russian exports are expected to be light (see p. 19). But the most sudden and surprising upset in the world's wheat trade occurred in Argentina, where drought and locusts cut the prospective harvest nearly 50%. In good Latin American tradition the crop was officially overestimated early in the season, causing...
Accepting this plea, the Court freed Pat, left Australia's great "Shark Murder" stymied. "For all they can prove," declared Pat's friends, "James Smith may still be alive. What if his arm was cut off and thrown to a shark? That doesn't show he's dead...