Word: queensland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...countries from Finland to Zanzibar. He studied cotton growing in Egypt, bamboo culture in Japan, water chestnuts in China, hops in Bohemia, nuts in England. He brought avocados from Hawaii, mangoes from Bombay, onions from Egypt, mangosteens (a pineapple-apricot-orange-flavored fruit with a dark, tough rind) from Queensland and Java, chayotes ("a delicious vegetable ... of the cucumber family") from Jamaica, chaulmoogra (a leprosy remedy) from Burma. In 1906-07, Fairchild and his staff distributed some 800 tung-oil trees (oil used in varnishes and paints) to pioneer growers in the U. S. South and Southwest...
India, at Karachi and Calcutta. Here the traveler will don his linen suit and silk shirt before taking off for humid Bangkok, Siam, the transfer point for Imperial Airways' shuttle service to Hong Kong. Sixth night he sleeps at Singapore, where Quantas (Queensland and Northern Territory Services) Empire Airways Ltd. takes over the rest of his journey. Seventh night is spent at Rambang, Dutch East Indies, eighth at Longreach, Australia. Ninth day the traveler, his all-British 13,000-mile flight completed, is landed in Brisbane, busy capital of Queensland. The long trip will cost...
Instead of an exciting Budge-von Cramm final, Australians witnessed the painful spectacle of Champion Budge annihilating the ambidextrous and two-handed attack of 19-year-old Jack Bromwich,-which had been powerful enough to win three of the four major state championships (Queensland New South Wales...
...days later she limped miraculously into Queensland, where Sir John, awake for once to the human factor of shipping, shook hands mightily with the captain...
...Very Reverend Dean's little speech changed the whole atmosphere of Australia. Roaring with rage, the Commonwealth's high-blood-pressured politicians forgot their local strife last week in attacking Dean Johnson's "outburst of ignorance." Cried Premier Forgan Smith of the Australian State of Queensland which adjoins the vast and almost vacant Northern Territory: "As a means of smashing the British Commonwealth of Nations no more effective scheme could be devised...