Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Australia was "discovered" a score of times before the landing of Captain James Cook in 1770, but the discoverers always sailed quickly away from what they thought to be a barren, blasted land populated by brutes. This autumn Australia has played lavish host to George V's third son, Henry, Duke of Gloucester, who sailed home last week after his most exhausting royal chore since Abyssinia (TIME, Nov. io; 1930). From one end of the Commonwealth to the other, H. R. H. has helped celebrate the 100th anniversary of the day when one Edward Henty landed a stake of cattle...
...Washington each autumn great swarms of dark, destructive birds called starlings settle in the sycamore trees along Pennsylvania Avenue, annoy Congressmen and other citizens by chattering, committing nuisances. Only defense the Washington authorities have figured out is to annoy the starlings in turn. Last year they tried stinkpots. To these, Congressmen proved more sensitive than starlings. This year, with plenty of Federal relief funds available, Clifford Lanham, Superintendent of Trees & Parking, decided on a thoroughgoing mechanical job of starling-annoying...
...theatre with an 80-ft. stage which inscriptions indicated was built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, a life-size alabaster statue, probably of Hadrian, and a villa with remarkable mosaic floors. One design, composed of glass cubes tinted in pastel shades, showed a male and a female figure, representing Autumn and Harvest, reclining on a couch where they were served by a personification of Wine. "Among the finest antique work ever discovered," cried Professor Campbell...
...personal habits, he never smoked or drank. His frailty, however, did not prevent him from doing prodigious amounts of work. His hands full with his own and the nation's business, he nevertheless kept an "inside story" diary of the War years, the third volume of which appeared this autumn. Intimate as this book is, many passages were omitted by Lord Riddell as "unsuitable for publication at the present time." "I work all day," he once said "because I like it better than anything else." The Riddell hobby was hospitals. So extensive was his philanthropy that British Medicine made...
...last fortnight touched a 200-week high. Steel production inched upward for the eighth consecutive week to 32.7% of capacity. That still meant losses for the industry but the price of scrap steel, a good key to steel's future, jumped to $13 per ton, up $3 from the autumn low. Building supply companies, aided by the Government's remodeling drive, reported sales up as much as 150%. American Telephone & Telegraph added 16,000 telephones in November as against 5,000 in the corresponding period of 1933. For the full year A. T. & T. will probably show a net station...