Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Australia and China to Europe, riding high, running dry, sailed by full crews of crack sailors, by masters who drove their ships under full sail all the way.∙ They carried tea and gold in a hurry. Last of the cargoes now carried in sail are Chilean nitrates and Australian wheat and wool. There is no hurry about getting cheap wheat from Australia to Britain. Sailing ships give free warehousing. On the long slow way the price of wheat may go up. Every winter since the War a fleet of Finnish, Swedish and German windjammers has set out for Britain...
...poniard in my heart after seeing what was supposed to be a picture of Secretary Woodin on the front of the issue of March 20. It is my opinion that the man who made that picture began it as a picture of L. M. Howe, changed it to an Australian Bushman and ended up with a Bloodhound...
...then the big, boisterous States of the Australian Commonwealth think for themselves. Two years ago New South Wales tried to repudiate the interest on its State debt (TIME, April 6, 1931 et seq.). The Crown-appointed Governor finally forced the Premier, tall, square-jawed John Thomas Lang, out of office (TIME, May 23). Last week the Commonwealth's biggest and rawest state, Western Australia, voted to secede from the Commonwealth...
Going home from the British-Australian cricket matches which Britain won (TIME, Feb. 27), Britain's able Bowler Harold Larwood was met at Suez by British sports editors. They offered him ?1 per word for the inside story of what happened in the test matches. In the third match Larwood had hit two Australian batsmen, on the head and chest. The crowd bar racked (jeered) him. In the fourth, Australian batsmen began to dodge Larwood's pitches and after the fifth, an Australian mob surrounded his boat train. Fellow-passengers said he was "lucky to get away with...
...other racing enterprises of all the Whitneys-is Major Louie A. Beard, onetime captain of the U. S. Army polo team. Mrs. Whitney's racing string was enlarged from 41 horses in 1932, to 62 this year. Most notable purchase of the year by Jock Whitney was the Australian mare Nea Lap, sister of famed Phar Lap. Last winter she was bred to The Porter, able 18-year-old stallion which Jock Whitney bought two years...