Word: australian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest piece of foreign financing in immediate prospect is another Australian Government loan, for a sum not yet announced by J. P. Morgan & Co., Australia's bankers, but reported to be between $50,000,000 and $75,000,000. The bonds, which will be the eleventh Australian issue brought out in the U. S. market, will bear 5% interest and will be sold in the neighborhood...
Australia's borrowing policy works out admirably to the advantage of all three parties, Wall Street, London, the Australian Government...
Third, for the Australian Government: Australia has the advantage of competition for her issues between the two great money markets of the world, which mean better terms of loan and the goodwill of two great nations of investors...
...many thousand drinks of whiskey were thus won by Alfred Griffith, Australian immigrant, is not recorded. Several thousand too many, certainly. He was young Griffo, some say the fastest, cleverest fisticuffer ever known. He never won a championship. He trained for prize fights by walking with increasing unsteadiness from the clean white handkerchief to the beer-slopped...
Contrasting the English and Australian methods of study, Professor Portus declared that honors men prepared at Oxford are probably more capable than those who studied in Australia, while students are better prepared by class work at the colonial universities