Settler Transforms Desert Into Fertile Farm
R L Bruce farms 3000 acres in South Australia’s 90 mile desert turning 1700 acres to green crops and 240 acres to feed paddocks with three and a half sheep per acre. He predicts 6000 sheep on the full tract in three years. CSIR soil treatments and zinc copper sulphate dressings revived exhausted land. The piece notes wider CSIR reclamation aims and potential ex-serviceman farm settlements in the region.
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R. L. Bruce
South Australia
Bruce
Council For Scientific and Industrial Research
Lake Albert
Victoria
CSIR
D. S Riceman
I Can Hear It Now records historic broadcasts
A two year collaboration produced I Can Hear It Now compiling 61 minutes from 500 hours of broadcasts. The Columbia Records collection spans the 1920s to 1945, featuring Roosevelt Churchill Stalin Hitler MacArthur and more.
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Caesar
Napoleon
Genghis Khan
George Washington
Pontius Pilate
Columbia Records
Franklin Roossevelt
Douglas MacArthur
Missouri
Britain
Edward VIII
Wallis Simpson
Baltimore
Lakehurst
Neville Chamberlain
Munich
Hitler
Edward KR. Murrow
Fred Friendly
John G. Gude
Finland honors Sibelius by closing roads around home
Finland officially recognizes the composer Jean Sibelius's inspiration by closing roads around his home. A government spokesman said the composer walks in the woods there, and they do not want his inspiration disturbed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finland
Jan Sibelius
Mayer back from honeymoon as MGM reels from headlines
Louis B. Mayer returns to work after a Palm Springs honeymoon with his then bride now widow Mrs Lorena Danker. He vents about reporters and photographers and will speak to his press agent only, as he weighs scripts for three MGM films amid changes at the studio. Clark Gable negotiates pay and options while Robert Young joins The Forsyte Saga cast with Greer Garson Zachary Scott and Errol Flynn.
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MGM
Louis B. Mayer
Lorena Danker
California
Palm Springs
Mayer
Clark Gable
Ane Gable
Metros
Robert Young
Greer Garson
Zachary Scott
Errol Flynn
Forsyte
Greer
Ichard Ney
Columbia
St. Ives
The Broad Arrow Filming Plans Revealed by Goldwyn
Goldwyn says Sydney scenes for The Broad Arrow will be built on its Hollywood lot. The film adapts William Macleod Raine Revie s London and Australia with David Niven Teresa Wright and Dana Andrews in key roles.
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Svaney
Samuel Goldwyn
Paramount
Sydney
Sity Goldwyn
Hollywood
William MacLeod
Revie
London
Australia
David Niven
lTeresa Wright
Dana Andrews
Autoblate and Autoblast Insecticide Machines Describe New-British Device
A compact report details a self-built mobile unit named the Autoblate that emits a top reach insecticide blast to infested fruit trees. It uses a fast revolving fan in a cylinder to project a no-mph jet while a second device, the Autoblast, claims a 40 foot radius coverage.
Inland towns to gain air foam fire jets from CFA brigades
The Country Fire Authority plans to equip inland Victoria towns with portable high spec units to tackle oil fires using jets of 85 percent air and 15 percent later. Chief officer A. McPherson notes brigades will carry foam units able to suppress fires with 45 gallons of mechanical foam. Mechanical foam contains air filled bubbles unlike CO2 based chemical foam.
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Victoria
Country Fire Authority
A. McPherson
Fragmentary OCR Note Yields Sparse Local News
The readable items list names and places in a damaged OCR segment from Esperance News and South Western Sheertiver. The fragment mentions local figures and areas such as Toodyuy and South Western regions, with no clear event or outcome to summarize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teonera News Swotheen
Entinel
Sortham Sows
Merredir Merrart
Oroce
Herk-Carrigin Part
Voice From Coffin Hauler Faces Damages Suit
In Liverpool Harrison ferried a hitchhiker inside an open coffin in the truck bed to ride out rain. A second hitchhiker later spooked him, causing a fall and a broken leg. The incident ends with a damages claim against the haulage firm.
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Liverpool
Flarrison
Harrison
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