Word: riverina
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...received "a most painful surprise." Although U. S. payments were promised, New South Wales bonds dropped on Wall Street from 62½ to 56. Outraged Australians talked darkly of putting the whole state under martial law. Members of the Commonwealth Parliament from northern New South Wales and the Riverina district threatened, like Yancey of Alabama,* to secede...
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