Word: australians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last few weeks' mail has also brought offers from three U.S. publishers to distribute Hall's magazine in America, inquiries from newsdealers, bids from European publishing firms for foreign language editions. Two Swedish correspondents and representatives of two Australian newspaper chains have shown up for interviews, and the sedate London Times literary supplement reviewed Hall's magazine. Hall's old newspaper, the Guardian, sent a reporter around, too, and his article began: "The American news magazine TIME has been tickled by the enterprise of a new British publication...
...Heath Robinson's Magnetic Method of Stretching Spaghetti (at the expense of Britain's face-lengthening austerity program) and H. M. Bateman's Tragedy at Wellington Barracks, a study in horror-struck faces as a butter-fingered guardsman on parade drops his rifle. It was dapper Australian-born Cartoonist Bateman who had started the whole thing in a speech to the Royal Society last February, declaring it was high time the British had a "National Academy of Humorous Art." Last week's show was a sort of test...
...serious development," but said it was unfair to compare it with the convertibility crisis in the summer of 1947. In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson termed it "not a great crisis." On the contrary, British Fuel Minister Hugh Gaitskell referred to "this moment of supreme crisis," and Australian Prime Minister Joseph B. Chifley said it was a "pretty desperate situation...
...Melbourne ... we play a game . . . which makes all the other football codes look as interesting and as fast as cricket appears to Americans. The game is known as Australian Rules Football ... In the city of Melbourne, an average of 130,000 people travel to league and association club matches every Saturday during the winter months . . . The game features the best attributes of soccer, rugby and gridiron football, and it eliminates the disadvantages of the latter in that it is only on rare occasions that anyone is hurt. Long kicks, high marks (catches) and accurate, speedy passing of the ball...
...many a railway walkout, was jolted out of Australia's usual tolerance of communism. For the first time, Chifley denounced the Communists, and his government hurriedly drafted an emergency bill that would prevent unions from using their funds to support strikes called during arbitration proceedings. Most of Australian labor supported the bill. It passed without dissent. Cried Labor M.P. Leslie Haylen: "Reds act here as in Berlin. They choose the depth of a hard winter to try and suborn a great community by privation and attrition...