Word: australia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Least popular destinations were Africa (1,850) and Australia...
Field Marshal George Francis Milne, Baron Milne of Salonika and of Rubislaw, Governor and Constable of His Majesty's Tower of London, Master Gunner of St. James's Park, returning to England with his wife and his daughter from a tour of Australia, landed one icy day at Vancouver, B. C. He tried to get an eastbound train, found Canadian railways buried by snowslides, torn by washouts. Vastly annoyed, Lord Milne, wife & daughter took a train which veered south across the U. S. border, stopped at Seattle. Shortly newshawks came, bothered them with questions. Snapped His Lordship...
Wearing his lion-skin coat, Roscoe Turner took off from Miami for New York (1,200 mi.) last week, ostensibly to break Rickenbacker's transport record of 8 hr. 36 min. With him in the United Air Lines' Boeing in which he placed third in the England-Australia air race last autumn was United's Traffic Manager Harold Crary. An hour after Turner's departure a regular Eastern Air Liner took off from Miami with twelve passengers. Pilot Dick Merrill refueled at Charleston, picked up a tailwind at Richmond, scooted into Newark at 227 m.p.h...
...Japan's reigning commercial House of Mitsui-were something of a joke until a few months ago. Production then was less than 125 per month. Today Mitsubishi have invested $1,000,000 in brand new U. S. machinery, stepped production up to 500 cars per month. In Australia white salesmen moan as white prospects now buy from yellowmen 50 Datsuns per month, despite years of intensive Australian propaganda against the "Yellow Peril...
...return in February for a General Motors' broadcast and an engagement with the Philadelphia orchestra. Yehudi Menuhin's dates cram sheets of paper. He played 18 times in Europe this autumn. He now has 25 concerts in the U. S., to be followed by some 50 in Australia, 28 in South Africa. At the end of his world tour in February 1936, his parents will make him retire for a year...