Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dominions. Great Britain's tariff law enacted last March had imposed duties against foreign goods with the provision that these duties could be applied to the Dominions after next November. Mr. Bennett wanted a market for Canadian wheat, dairy products, poultry, lumber. Mr. Bruce wanted a market for Australian frozen meat. For this pair poky Mr. Baldwin was no match. Before they were through with him Britain had committed herself to five years of free entry for Dominion foodstuffs (except the Irish Free State's) at the expense of tariffs against the rest of the world's foodstuffs...
Quos: 1) Unspecified preferences to British manufactured goods. 2) "Reasonable competition" with Australian industry...
...flags over her lane, she kept her head turned to watch Philomena Mealing of Australia whom she beat by 5 ft. The one race that U. S. women swimmers have never done well in, the 200-metre breast stroke, went to a 16-year-old Australian schoolgirl, Clare Dennis of Sydney, who made an Olympic record of 3:06.4, a ripple ahead of little Hideko Maehata of Japan. An unbeatable U. S. team of Josephine McKim, Helen Johns. Eleanor Sayville and Helene Madison won the 400-metre relay in 4:38 (Olympic record...
...lions (the female is expectant), a pair of llamas which recently had issue, deer, camels, Himalayan goats, zebras, Shetland ponies imported from Germany, eight bears of assorted colors, monkeys, chimpanzees, Japanese red-faced apes, 13 flamingos (one of the best collections in the U. S.), hundreds of birds, from Australian parakeets to American eagle. Practically all of the beasts & birds were acquired from Benson Animal Farms at Nashua, N. H. Neighbor W. B. McClellan, who resides but 100 ft. from the menagerie, heads the protesting property-owners. He caught one of the mon keys in his backyard recently. A woman...
...Mother Country, faced by concerted Canadian, Australian and New Zealand demands that she place an embargo on Soviet wheat and timber, declared this to be "impossible," but hinted that a partial embargo might be placed on Argentine meat...