Word: mainstays
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Since Australia was settled 180 years ago, the mainstay of its economy has always been British purchases of Australian wheat and wool. Now, with Britain dickering for membership in the Common Market and the whole system of Commonwealth tariff preferences threatened with extinction, Australia is looking around anxiously for other agricultural customers. And its eye has lit on Red China, whose own monumental crop failures have forced it to buy grain abroad. During the past two years, with the purchase of $180 million worth of Australian wheat, barley, oats and flour, Red China has become Australia's fourth biggest...
...independence, the Indians took over six of the ten regiments while the British got the other four. By special treaty, the British are still allowed to recruit Gurkhas in Nepal. The soldiers' paychecks (a Gurkha private in Britain today averages $56 monthly) and pensions continue to be a mainstay of the Nepalese economy...
...second lieutenant despite having been expelled from two high schools, in World War II led the fast-moving 9th Division through North Africa and Sicily, subsequently took the XIIth Corps across the Rhine and as Commander, U.S. Army in Europe, rebuilt the occupation army in Germany into a mainstay of NATO's shield; of a heart attack; at Fort Benning...
Cruise Types. Unlike the France, the two British liners are really cruise ships, cater to the type of passenger who has become the mainstay of the liners. The cruise traveler is going nowhere in particular, likes the sense of remoteness from the world's harassments that only the sea can give, and is happy to stop anywhere that seems interesting. In 1956 the winter cruise business grossed $55 million; this year it will top $100 million. This season there will be more than 325 cruise sailings to the Caribbean. Mediterranean, South
That dwindling band of eighteenth-century gentlemen (that was once, in better days, the mainstay of this institution) will be cheered by the bracing news that it now has a Christmas record all to itself. Called An Eighteenth-Century Christmas, it's put out by Vanguard (Bach Guild BG-569) and includes Corelli's Christmas Concerto, Torelli's Pastoral Concerto for the Nativity, several pieces by J. S. Bach, and the Haydn Toy Symphony (by Leopold Mozart). I Soloisti di Zagreb are the instrumentalists (dam' fine fellahs, too) and they are led by Antonio Janigro...