Word: australia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the University of Missouri in 1905, he worked for three years on various newspapers including the Post-Dispatch, then taught copy reading and editorial writing in the School of Journalism of the University of Missouri from 1908 to 1918. In 1916 he took a year off, went to Australia, worked on the Melbourne Herald. In Washington no correspondent was more respected by his colleagues than Ross. In 1931 that respect became almost reverential awe when he won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles for the Post-Dispatch's "Dignity Page" called "The Plight of the Country...
...Danube Basin will have no wheat to spare after feeding its own territory, and Spain also needs most of her wheat for her own people. Thus the wheat-importing countries of Europe were looking anxiously across the seas last week to the three principal countries with exportable surpluses?Argentina, Australia, Canada...
...prospect was not as bright as it was a month ago. By last week traders had reduced their estimates of the Canadian crop to the point where Canada would have only about 160,000,000 bu. for export. And Australia, still four months from harvest, was put down for an exportable surplus of only 70,000,000 bu. out of this year's crop?less than half of normal. Thus Canada & Australia between them could barely supply the Mother Country's needs...
...shortage for this year. By July 1935 the U. S. carry-over will be reduced to around 120,000,000 bu.?a normal carryover for the first time in seven years. Canada's surplus from last year is 200,000,000 bu., France's 100,000,000, Australia's 85,000,000, Germany's 24,000,000, Argentina's 100,000,000?a grand total of more than 700,000,000 bu. About 400,000,000 bu. of that carryover will be needed this year to make up for crop deficiency, leaving 300,000,000 bu. as the world...
...year spring heat waves ripened the southern fields early, forcing peasants to harvest by night under the glare of electric lamps. Best estimates were that the total crop would be 700,000,000 bu., 30% less than last year. Several million bushels have already been imported from Argentina and Australia to Vladivostok to feed Russian troops concentrated in East Siberia...