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Word: australian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dinner party (held under two huge, orange-and-black-striped tents that were floored with rich Oriental rugs), heard the eerie caterwauling of pipes played by a countermarching military regiment, watched Pathan tribesmen from the northwest frontier as they danced in wild, hair-tossing abandon, observed part of an Australian-Pakistani cricket match, marveled at an exhibition of tent-pegging (in which shrieking horsemen galloped full speed at tent pegs and picked them out of the ground on their lances as they swooped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: American Image | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Handsome Profits. The one complaint that Aussies have about foreign capital is the lack of opportunity for local participation in the new companies. Only about 40 of the U.S. manufacturing subsidiaries are publicly owned, and of these only eleven have some degree of Australian ownership. But the Aussie who invests in a domestic company can make handsome profits on his own. In a land that is turning out its own diesel engines, railroad cars, jet aircraft and transistor radios, stocks are an investor's dream. Ansett Transport Industries, Clyde Industries (engineering), Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. (steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: The Boom in Australia | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

During the Luzon operations, almost 2,000 U.S. and Australian Navymen were killed by the kamikaze pilots. During the Philippines campaign, one in four kamikazes damaged a target; one in 33 sank a ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Song of the Kamikaze | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Actresses Ann Todd and Angela Lansbury lead an all-British cast through an Australian murder trial in The Grey Nurse Said Nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Died. Charles Edward Chauvel, 62, Australian film producer who in 1931 sought an actor for a film called In the Wake of the Bounty, came upon a young vagabond sailor whose small boat had just been wrecked on a South Sea atoll, gave the late Errol Flynn his start; of a heart attack; in Sydney, Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 23, 1959 | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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