Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State of Victoria has provided a sanctuary for the koala on Phillip Island in Great Western Bay near the most southeasterly tip of the continent. Although almost extinct on the mainland the "bears" have done very well in their island home and lately have become so numerous that it has been necessary to remove many of them to adjacent spots...
Like Bermuda, Mackinac Island, charming summer resort at the northwest end of Lake Huron, prohibits automobiles. Last week. Mackinac relaxed its rule for the first time, let one automobile ashore to carry a crippled man to the ferry. Back to the mainland with him went...
...Hawaii, 600 travelers were unable to continue because no U. S. ships were sailing. After loud protest from Governor Joseph B. Poindexter, Strikeleader Harry Lundeberg in San Francisco announced that all ships bound for the U. S. mainland could sail. In Honolulu, lettuce jumped from 5? to 25? a head, celery from $3.25 to $9.80 per case...
Vancouver is a boom city as civic-conscious as the U. S. cities across the border. Fed, like them, by lumber, mines, wheat and fish, mainland Vancouver has grown fast, while older snobbish Victoria on Vancouver Island across the Strait of Georgia has hugged its reputation as "a little bit of England on the shores of the Pacific." In 1885, when the Canadian Pacific Railway reached the coast, insular Victoria looked down on the brawling mill town of Gastown, named for a saloonkeeper, "Gassy Jack" Deighton. To the rage of Victoria's aristocrats, Canadian Pacific officials renamed Gastown Vancouver...
...Barcelona, Toledo and most of the fertile east coast. Rebel Generalissimo Franco was stymied in the south. Seville he held, and Córdoba and Granada. He had been able to move his headquarters from Morocco to Seville, to ferry about 300 soldiers a day by plane to the mainland. But he was unable to march against Madrid, and fiery-eyed Communist militia still kept him out of Málaga. Government forces, on the other hand, were still unable to capture Zaragoza, strongest military garrison...