Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Midway through World War I, the Australian government decided that it would be patriotic to shut all pubs at 6 p.m. With offices closing at 5, that did not leave much time for serious drinking, but Australians learned to make the most of it. Like alcoholic camels, they stowed away great amounts of beer in short amounts of time, capping it all with what is known as "the 6 o'clock swill"-ordering up to half a dozen beers a minute before the "beeroff" bell, gulping them down in the 15 minutes before the barmaids had to collect...
Improving the Australian economy was hardly a major aim in the life of John L. Lewis, but that is just what he did. In 1954, with their antiquated industry slumping badly, Australian coalmine owners and union leaders journeyed to the U.S. in search of a solution. Naturally, they dropped in on the longtime leader of the United Mine Workers. He urged that they mechanize their mines, as the U.S. was doing with U.M.W. support. "Do you believe in slavery?" asked Lewis. "No? Well, then, it's better to have 10,000 contented workers than 20,000 men working like...
Coal's resurgence, which played a big part in the sturdy growth of the entire Australian economy, is due to complete modernization of the industry. Last week Sir Edward Warren announced that his Coal & Allied Industries Ltd. would open a new mine in Cessnock, 80 miles north of Sydney; it will be worked with automatic equipment, including a U.S.-manufactured continuous miner, which is operated by three men, crunches coal seams with spinning metal teeth and can chew out ten tons a minute. Helped by government tax allowances, mine owners have so far spent $236 million on such...
...British Establishment, in fact, he is the perfect Australian: silvery-haired, conservatively tailored, reverential about traditions, plummy in accent, and, above all, delighting in pomp. Sir Robert literally clanks with honors. He is Knight of the Order of the Thistle, Privy Counsellor, Companion of Honour, Queen's Counsel, and three months ago he became the first non-Englishman to be appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, an order that entitles him to fly a blue, yellow and red flag depicting Dover Castle and rates him a 19-gun salute in the five ports for which the order...
...army's "Big Red One" division punched in atop armored personnel carriers escorted by M48 tanks, while the 173rd Airborne and the Roy al Australian Battalion swept in aboard 200 helicopters. Except for snipers in spider holes and an occasional machine-gun nest, there was nobody home. But home was something else again-an astonishing network of tunnels equipped with all the conveniences, from freshwater wells to a hospital, a post office and a briefing room complete with blackboard and chairs...