Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anchor in the South Pacific lay the little Australian destroyer Torrens last week. Three-quarters of a mile away Australia's two capital ships, the 10,000-ton cruisers Australia and Canberra, steamed in line of battle, decks cleared for action. Gunnery officers and navigators worked their range finders and slide rules, scribbled calculations. The eight eight-inch guns of the Australia fired a deafening broadside, the Canberra followed with her main battery. Fountains of white spray rose round the little target-ship, but when the smoke cleared, the Torrens still rode at anchor. Australia's navy tried...
...Minister James Henry Scullin was faced with a crisis (on repudiation of national debts) in Australia, which threatened to disrupt his Labor Party. Telephone officials proudly revealed last week that Prime Minister Scullin met his crisis by spending an average of $150 daily telephoning 11,000 mi. to his Australian henchmen...
...Victor Bruce was loafing along in easy jumps. Flight Lieut. C. W. Hill, another Australian, flew his Moth into Surabaya, Java two days ahead of Hinkler's schedule. But there Kingsford-Smith, who left England four days behind, was close on his tail. The two were nearly even for the last hazardous lap across the Timor Sea. Then Lieut. Hill was forced down on the Island of Timor and, in trying to take off again, his plane overturned. The Southern Cross Jr., sweeping past Timor in an attempted nonstop dash to Port Darwin, ran into headwinds and was also...
England-Australia. Four British subjects were soloing from England to Australia last week: English Lieut. C. W. Hill who reached Siam safely; Australian Wing Commander Charles Kingsford-Smith, Atlantic & Pacific crosser, flying to marry Mary Powell at Melbourne; Captain F. R. Matthews, who crashed between Bankok and Singapore; Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce, who intends to go around the world by easy stages. Last week her motor failed over the mountains near Jask, Persia. Courteous hillmen brought her mechanical...
...Berne, Switzerland, quadruplets named Gehri, aged 50, held a reunion "before going to the cemetery," after 26 years apart. One brother and sister had become U. S. citizens, one sister an Australian. Oscar, eldest by a few minutes, had retained his Swiss citizenship...