Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Even more of an attraction than these for Hollywood plutocrats has been the racetrack, which was constructed at a cost of $2,500,000 by removing part of a mountain. The Annual Agua Caliente Handicap, which was to have been run on March 20 and for which the great Australian horse Pharlap was entered this year, is the richest-$150,000 -horse race in the world. James Nugent Crofton barked his announcement sadly last week. "There's no longer any use of our trying to kid ourselves. . . . Shortage of money has been apparent. . . . The announcement that the Mexican Government...
...defaults which the Dominion Treasury had to make good (TIME. April 6, et seq.). Last week young, buoyant Australia kicked Mr. Scullin, who now seems "old" at 55, into the discard. Triumphantly placed in power by a general election which gave his supporters 51 seats out of the Australian Parliament's 75 was "The Honest Man from Tasmania," Joseph Aloysius Lyons...
Tasmania is a chunky little island lying just below the Australian continent's nether tip. In Tasmania rugged Mr. Lyons worked up from State Treasurer (1914-16) to State Premier (1923-28), acquiring a reputation for honesty and a grasp of budget arithmetic. Three years ago he was merely a prominent island statesman, but in 1929 he graduated to a seat in the continent's Parliament at Canberra, sitting as a Laborite...
Stocks rose sharply on Australian exchanges at news of the election. In London the orthodox thing to say became, "Thank goodness, they've come to their senses down under. Now the Aussies will pitch Labor out just as we did, and a jolly good...
...which 7,604.625 copies were sold by the colporteurs. Distribution was 287,000 less than the previous year; contributions dropped ?33,047. Total number of languages and dialects in which the Bible is published was raised to 644 by the addition of German Romany (Gypsy), Australian Worrora, and twelve dialects of Africa, India and New Guinea...