Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Convened: in Washington last week, the second annual meeting of ANZUS, the Australian-New Zealand-U.S. Treaty Council...
...more protection what the wool men really need? High-quality Australian wool, adding in the present tariff, now costs more than the domestic wool (see chart). Furthermore, wool users, who oppose a tariff increase, argue that any boost in domestic wool prices would actually be self-defeating. A rise in wool cloth prices would decrease consumption even further and increase the use of synthetic fibers...
...paced by the U.S.'s Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly, U.S., Wimbledon and Australian tennis champion, a U.S. team successfully defended the Wightman Cup for the 17th straight time since 1930 (7-0). from a quartet of British girls...
...week the old battle was raging again. The U.N.'s Trusteeship Council noted that Pidgin "has characteristics . . . which reflect now outmoded concepts of the relationship between indigenous inhabitants and immigrant groups" (U.N. Pidgin for "It's undemocratic"). The council's recommendation: that New Guinea's Australian administrators "develop plans to eliminate [Pidgin] completely." Would the resolution do the trick? Cried Paul Hasluck, Australia's Minister for Territories: "Just as foolish as suggesting that all Europeans should speak nothing but Russian next week...
...would be a grave error, the Australian researcher warns, to believe that because man has some fancy new drugs the bugs will lie down and take it. Not only disease-causing germs but diseases themselves are constantly evolving. So, says Burnet, while it is right and necessary to give antibiotics to protect a patient for a short time against a specific hazard, they must not be used indiscriminately or indefinitely. Reason: it is impossible to be sure that the germs cannot develop resistance to the drug, and if they do, they may become the dominant forms of their type, much...