Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decline in exports for the current year (1929-30) of as much as £30,000,000. . . . Undoubtedly the chief depressing influences were the decline in the price of wool and . . . a pronounced tightening in the international money markets [which] has seriously affected the capacity of London to supply Australian Governments with their usual quota of loan funds?from £25,000,000 to £30,000,000 per annum in recent years...
Some pastors thought Engineer Wyer should not have been invited to speak; many felt that he had been somewhat harsh. The pastors were particularly eager to hear sturdy, bespectacled Dr. Frederick William Norwood, eloquent Australian-born minister of London's City Temple.* One of his chief reasons for visiting the U. S. was to attend the Pentecostal celebration. He spoke with great verve. "Dare we say," he inquired, "that we are civilized when at this moment the representatives of the great governments are sitting with drawn lips, like men playing cards, trying to see how much power they...
...further shows the ship and airplane routes of the four parties who have worked around the continent the past two winters: 1) Byrd Antarctic Expedition at the Ross Sea; 2) Wilkins-Hearst Expedition (Sir George Hubert Wilkins) at the Weddell Sea; 3) British- Australian-New Zealand and Antarctic Expedition (Sir Douglas Mawson's) at the Indian Ocean side; 4) Norwegian Whalers (Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen's and Lutzow Holm...