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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 108 words
  3. FRANCE'S DEVALUATION OF FRANC AIMED AT NATION'S ECONOMIC RECOVERY

    PARIS, December 25 (A.A.P.).—It is stated officially that the French franc has been devaluated to a new rate of 480 to the £1 sterling (119.10669 to the dollar). The French Government considered the ...

    Article : 114 words
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    Chance of Occupants.—A major of the Seaforth Highlanders interrogating one of the Indonesian republicans who had ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 41 words
  5. KING'S CHRISTMAS BROADCAST TO PEOPLES OF EMPIRE

    LONDON, December 25 (A.A.P.),—"With my whole heart I pray God, by Whose great mercy victory has been won, that this Christmas may bring to my people all the world over every joy they have dreamed of in the dark days that have gone," said the King in his broadcast to the ...

    Article : 171 words
  6. CHRISTMAS TREE BECOMES TORCH OF DEATH AT HARTFORD HOSPITAL

    NEW YORK, December 25 (A.A.P.).—The grimmest tragedy this Christmas occurred at Hartford (Connecti[?]t) hospital, when a Christmas tree ignited and became a torch of death to 12. Most of the victims fr were aged convalescents. ...

    Article : 185 words
  7. BARNES' BIG SCORE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 278 words
  8. PRESIDENT'S CHRISTMAS

    INDEPENDENCE (Missouri), Dec. 26 (A.A.P.).—The American Associated Press correspondent says that President Truman arrived on Christmas ...

    Article : 146 words
  9. FOREIGN CURRENCY RESOURCES.

    The official statement adds that the foreign currency resources of territories inside the franc zone will be pooled as hitherto through the ...

    Article : 326 words
  10. INTER-STATE CRICKET

    ADELAIDE, December 26.—The resumption of the Adelaide interState match. Queensland v. South Australia, was delayed by rain ...

    Article : 319 words
  11. STATE PUBLIC SERVICE.

    BRISBANE, December 26.—Early next year the State Government will fill a record number of high Government posts to be vacated ...

    Article : 209 words
  12. RETURN TO A WORLD OF FRIENDLY THINGS

    This Christmas is a real home-coming for us all; a return to a world in which the homely and friendly things of life can again be ours. ...

    Article : 1,085 words
  13. SYDNEY LETTER.

    Sparks as small as those made by rubbing a cat's back are all that is needed to "set off" vapour from, petrol that has been used in the home as a ...

    Article : 650 words
  14. SHIP GRAVEYARD.

    Imagine a harbour half the size of Port Phillip Bay, with 300 sunken ships in it. From such a mental picture a rough idea can be obtained of the ...

    Article : 333 words
  15. HOURLY AIR SERVICE.

    BRISBANE, Dec. 26.—With the arrival of new and larger planes early in the new year, it is hoped to provide an hourl[?] air service from ...

    Article : 124 words
  16. W.A. BUYS FREIGHTER

    CANBERRA, December 20.—Indeciding to purchase a cargo ship now being built at the New South Wales Government shipbuilding yards at Newcastle[?] ...

    Article : 561 words
  17. STUD CATTLE IN ARGENTINA

    With pomp and colour befitting a major national event, Argentina in August each year pays homage to its beef industry. Like Australia, which ...

    Article : 964 words
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    HIS MAJESTY, THE KING ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  19. TWO DROWNINGS.

    SYDNEY, Dec. 26.—Two drownings were notified during the Christmas holidays. Ernest Byers (5½), of North Sydney, was drowned in Narrabeen ...

    Article : 40 words
  20. GLIDING RECORD.

    SYDNEY, Dec. 26.—The Australian gliding record was broken by Martin Warner, of Sydney, on Monday, when he flew a distance of 205 miles from ...

    Article : 60 words
  21. FORMAL RESIGNATION

    TEHRAN, Dec. 25 (A.A.P.).—The Persian Minister for the Interior (Khali Fahimi), who nearly precipitated a Cabinet crisis last week by refusing to ...

    Article : 86 words
  22. JAPANESE OFFICERS TO HANG.

    KWAJALEIN Dec. 26 (A.A.P.).—The American Associated Press correspondent says that Rear-Admiral Sakaibara has been sentenced to hang following ...

    Article : 41 words
  23. MILITARY TRAIN CRASH.

    PARIS, Dec. 25 (A.A.P.).—Nine passengers were burnt to death when a military train crashed in a fog at Melun, east, of Paris. This is the fourth ...

    Article : 52 words
  24. £450 MILLION PLAN FOR ELECTRICITY

    Britain's electricity industry is undertaking a five years' expansion plan expected to cost up to £450,000,000. About one-third of the amount will be spent on generating plant and the rest on ...

    Article : 398 words
  25. RISING DIVORCE TIDE— Turning America Into "Disunited States"

    NEW YORK.—The staggering rise in the divorce rate is causing concern in the United States where— Already one in every four American ...

    Article : 373 words
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