Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spelled out the No. 1 problem of Australia: the labor shortage. In one day last week the paper carried 68 columns of finely printed "situations vacant" ads. Government rolls listed 47,000 unfilled jobs, and thousands more were not listed at all. A few years ago the well-protected Australian worker would have rent the air with redundant obscenities if an Englishman or Scot competed with him for a job. Now even a Sydney wharfie knows that foreign workers are needed...
...tall (6 ft.), irascible Arthur August Calwell, Australia's first Minister for Immigration. His Government's long-range goal is a population of 20 million (present population: 7½ million). Calwell's job has not been made any easier by the fact that Australians still have definite ideas of what kind of immigrants they want: ten Britons to one from other lands, very few "reffos" (Aussie for European refugees), few southern Europeans, and, in the long-established Australian tradition, no Asiatics. Last week Calwell flew to London to pound tables and find out why only...
...bought every pound of domestic wool at a fixed price. But Australia, which is much more efficient at sheep-raising and must sell wool or go bankrupt, sold to U.S. manufacturers at a lower price, in spite of the tariff wall. Combed U.S. wool was priced at $1.20; combed Australian, generally a finer grade, was sold at $1.09, which included 34? tariff. U.S. manufacturers bought Australian wool while U.S. wool piled up in Government warehouses. Last spring the warehouses were stuffed with more than a year and a half's supply...
...months, Scotland Yard's sleuths followed a shimmering trail of 1,600 butterflies that led from Australia to England. They were stolen from three Australian museums, and much of the thief's bag of exotic loot was irreplaceable. Among the missing butterflies were specimens rare beyond price-an Adaluma urumelia, silky white tinged with blue; an Ogyris zozine splendida, the only one of its black and metallic-blue type ever known to have been netted; several Diana Moonbeams, whose dull purple shading excites collectors just as a light excites a moth...
...most Moslem customs," witchcraft in the U.S., water lilies and other aquatic plants, the Democratic National Convention of 1912 ("I was there"), labor unions in Eastern Pennsylvania, the French horn, the U.S. textile industry and its ramifications, commercial fishing, religious orders of the Episcopal Church, French schools, Russian art, Australian slang, Washington, D.C. bureaucracy ("as distinct from political & diplomatic Washington"), dairy farm terminology, Sauk Centre, Minn., water polo, Austrian dialects, the game of Go, harness racing...