Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state of preparedness is inadequate, our defense expenditure unworthy of a wealthy people that has accepted onerous treaty obligations, and the administration of defense at the top levels of government is weak and too loosely coordinated." So said a group of Australian experts in a recent military study. In a modest way, Australia is try ing to do something about...
Born. To Diana Trask, 23, carrot-topped Australian singer who came up from Down Under to sing along with Mitch, and Thomas Ewen, 36, Aussie auto salesman: their second child, second son; in Melbourne...
...cities-but for reasons that make Lenin's grand vision seem even more absurd than it did in 1921. Into London and Paris flew ungainly Aeroflot TU-114 airliners bearing gold bars imprinted with hammer and sickle for delivery to Western customers. To cover their huge purchases of Australian, Canadian and U.S. wheat, and their increasing trade with non-Communist nations, the Russians are selling gold in the West at twice last year's pace. They have already delivered about $200 million worth so far this year, and before year's end are expected to sell...
...paradoxical reason for the strike orgy is the thriving Australian economy, which produces more than 2,000 new jobs a month but not the 2,000 workers to fill them. The result, says Sydney's Sunday Telegraph, "is the feeling among certain trade unions that full employment provides the excuse for tactics of disruption." In February, 40 boilermakers struck one company because they could not get fish and chips for their Friday lunch, and last month 300 iron workers walked off a job at the Sydney engineering works of Tulloch, Ltd. because management would not unlock a door...
...strikes put a high price on prosperity for Australian businessmen. A three-day strike by 328 pilots in February cost the Qantas airline $675,000 in revenue, and recent strikes at New South Wales steel plants meant a production loss of 36,000 tons of steel worth $2,250,000. What may repair some of the damage is a new awareness among labor leaders that the situation has got out of hand. Last week moderates in the Australian Council of Trade Unions vetoed a suggestion that the 1,000,000-member Transport Workers Union call a massive transport strike...