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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State of Western Australia is a vast semidesert as big as Western Europe. Separating it from the rest of Australia are 800 miles of uninhabited country. Among the jack rabbits, kangaroos and kookaburra birds that laugh hysterically and swallow snakes, live half a million farmers who till the fertile belt so successfully that they produce more than one fourth of Australia's wheat. Western Australians have long looked sideways at the Commonwealth's densely populated states, at the Eastern manufacturers who profit from the Commonwealth's high tariff, at the public works paid for by Australia...
...five-piece band, led a parade to Hyde Park High School to gain recruits. Unsuccessful, the marchers proceeded to the home of Acting Mayor Frank J. Corr, crying "Pay our teachers!'' and flourishing banners inscribed "Teachers want R. F. C. payroll loans at 3%. No Banks. . . . Sixty million dollars was paid to the unemployed. What did the teachers...
...well under way, especially in the post office, agriculture, and commerce departments. Quite a few bureaus can be absolutely abolished, while some can be radically cut down. We though we had sufficient power to accomplish everything in this line but there are several economies, amounting to 50 or 60 million dollars, which are not provided for. I expect that these loose ends will be covered in a new bill which will be introduced in a short time. Since at least $100,000,000 will be saved from the post office department alone, the total sum of our economies in this...
...large refinery at Big Spring and a pipe line to it. He bought acreage in Willbarger County-and sold a small part of it for what the whole had cost. From Texas he sprang back into Oklahoma. By 1929 he had sprung back into the boots of a 15-million-dollar...
...each. For some time the firm has been operating on a standstill agreement providing the freezing of some $375,000 owed to publishers. Last week two or three publishers grew restless. Receivership followed. Other publishers pointed out that if Brentano's were forced to liquidate half a million dollars worth of books would be thrown on the market at bargain prices. Brentano's, which increased the number of its stores from three to ten before the Depression, had been caught overextended...