Word: canberras
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...When Canberra became live news last week on the eve of its emergence as a great capital, many a sterling U. S. citizen felt acute shame at ignorance of almost everything about Australia except its rank as a British Dominion and its position in the Southern Hemisphere...
...killed. But even with this vicious drain on her man power and exchequer, Australia has emerged from the War strong and quickening. year and a half ago she weathered a great shipping strike, and through all these growing pains and tribulations has resolutely pushed forward the great project of Canberra...
Just as the original 13 American United States grew so mutually jealous that in 1790 it was necessary to set aside the District of Columbia; so, in 1911, the Dominion Parliament of Australia created the Federal Territory of Canberra, because the six Australian states* could not abide that Melbourne, Victoria, should continue indefinitely Australia's capital...
Prizes of $8,500, $3,600 and $2,400 were offered for a city plan which should make Canberra the world's finest seat of Government; and he who won $8,500 was a young scion of Maywood, Illinois, U. S. A., now famed Chicago architect Walter Burley Griffin...
...city, as originally planned, was to have expanded in concentric rings about the Capitol. But what has happened? Washington has grown so disproportionately westward that the Capitol now clings to the city's eastward fringe. A development so lopsided and undignified, decided Australians, shall not recur at Canberra...