Wild West of Cooma in a German paper portrays a colonial boomtown
A West German article paints Cooma as a wild frontier with a huge power plant under construction. It notes crowded hotels and bars, high wages around 200 marks a week, and a rough mix of swindlers and ambitious men. Island Bend houses 443 men and one woman the 20 year old telegraphist wife of a truck driver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cooma
Burg
Sydney
Melbourne
Canberra
Island Bend
It Takes 23 Acres to Keep One Man
A BBC broadcast quotes Mr. Richard Calder saying two and a half acres feed and clothe one person while nine hundred years to make an inch of top soil but nine months for a human. He warns weekly demand must rise as soil also makes clothing and calls for cultivating an extra 1.25 million acres weekly. Also notes that among 1,000,000 at the RAS event only three were arrested for serious crimes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Calder
BBC
Menzies Plans London Visit Amid Commonwealth Tensions
Prime Minister Menzies aims to strengthen ties with Britain and present Australian policy views during a planned London visit. He travels after May to meet Queen Elizabeth and confer with Churchill era leaders on defence, the Pacific Pact with the United States, and postwar economic strains affecting Australia and the Sterling area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robet Menzies
Australia
London
Canberra
Queen Elizabeth
Winston Churchill
Menzies
Churchill
Korea
Ighurenil
Washington
United States
International Bank
Malaya
China
Peking
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Wild West
England
Censure AG
MacKenzie & Sons Pty, Ltd
Manilla Strest
Manilla
Vesta Charger
A. C. Veness & Son
NEW Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency CO. Limited
Marsh Walters & Scott
Auctioneers & Stock
P.O. Box
Tamworth
New Zealand
Loan and Mercantile Agency CO. Limited
Marsh Walters & Scott Tamworth
Britain
Savoy
Ben Chifley
Ingrid Bergman
Tarcutta
Arthur Fadden
Butter
Downing St
Westminster
Buckingham Palace
Attlee and
Chifley
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
Australa
NATO
British Commonwealth
Middle East
Woolera
Country Producers Selling Co. Ltd
Bridge St
New Commonwealth and
Commonwealth
New South Wales
A.C.T
NSAP
Railway
Traneay
Motor Omnibus
U.S. Grand United Order of Oddfellows
Commonwealth Bank Health Society
Commonwealth Department of Health
Syd
Manchester
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