Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This handsome Australian won the national tennis championship at Forest Hills by soundly defeating in the finals...
...More seriously, "transferable sterling," which the British accept from European and other "soft currency" countries who cannot pay them in dollars, was selling in New York at $2.40, a discount of 14% on the official rate of $2.80. At this rate, slick continental operators could buy Malayan rubber or Australian wool (telling the British it was for their own account), then transship it straight to New York and undersell Britain's direct, dollar-earning sales. This "leak" in Britain's tight control on sterling-into-dollar exchange was a potent cause of sterling's devaluation in September...
...chief-of-staff of the Melbourne Herald, spent several years during the last war flying with the Royal Air Force and publicizing the air crews. Commenting on Australia's immigration restrictions against non-whites, Tipping said that political action is never taken on the problem because every Australian government in power always supports the quota system...
...health, Sir John called in Geoffrey Marshall, 64, an expert on lung diseases, and Sir Robert Arthur Young, 80, grand old man of British chest experts. X rays by Radiologist Peter James Kerley and others showed what seemed to be a growth in the left lung. Australian-born Brigadier Sir Thomas Peel Dunhill, 75, who enjoys the title of Sergeant Surgeon to the King, agreed that an operation was necessary. The doctors decided that another Welshman, Chest Surgeon Clement Price Thomas, was the man to do the surgery...
...long ago, the U.S. Davis Cup squad-on paper, at least-looked as though it had an even chance of bringing the cup back from Australia this December. Dick Savitt, Australian and Wimbledon champion, was thelogical No.1 man in singles. Up & coming Tony Trabert, U.S. clay court champion, could play the No. 2 singles, and team with veteran Billy Talbert in the doubles. Then the paper plans began to go up in smoke. A week after Trabert was ordered to duty with the Navy, Talbert quit the squad to go back to work as a salesman for the Security Banknote...