Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eight years ago, Americans and Australians fought the Japanese around Lamington. After the war it became again an area of peaceful coconut plantations, native villages and missions. Seventy whites, mostly Australian government officials and missionaries, and 4,400 natives, all but 400 of them Christians, lived there. When the non-Christian natives recently began predicting that the Spirit Mountain would again spew fire and death, the mission natives scoffed at the "barbarians." But the barbarians went away...
...week reported at least 50 square miles of formerly jungle-clad hills now a grey-brown desert of pumice dust caking into stone. Said one rescuer: "It was like being on another planet...The haze of steam and smoke issuing from Lamington made the whole thing a nightmare." Said Australian Government Official Claude Champion: "Native bodies were everywhere. Dead natives were hanging in the stripped branches of every tree, and many were caught in the forks of the trees. Apparently they died there after they had climbed up to escape from the hot ground." Only 150 natives were found alive...
...went up in black smoke. The airfield barracks were soaked with kerosene; then a captain ran from one to another, setting them afire with a flaming broom. At Inchon, the port troops and thousands of civilians were evacuated under the guns of warships of five nations (U.S., British, Canadian, Australian, Dutch). The last two LSTs were floated off the mud flats by a high tide as the Chinese were swarming into the port area...
...William Knox D'Arcy, an adventurous Englishman who had amassed a fortune in the Australian gold fields, scented a new bonanza. He paid Iran's Shah $20,000 for a 60-year monopoly on oil production in five-sixths of Iran, promised him an additional 16% of the profits. Seven years later, D'Arcy's prospectors brought in a gusher. In 1909, the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. (renamed Anglo-Iranian in 1935) was founded, has been spouting profits ever since. It built the world's largest refinery at Abadan, became a top-ranking crude...
Trade Note. In Sydney, Touglad Bate, 55, campaign organizer for the Australian Liberals, sued the party for $180 under the Workers' Compensation Act, claimed a right-hand deformity from handshaking during the last general election...