Completed Bren guns being recorded and packed in the inspection room at the Commonwealth Small Arms Factory, Lithgow. In the making of the Bren gun there are 3,937 separate hand or machine operations, and to establish its manufacture 72,944 tools, jigs, and fixtures weie necessary. Precision is to 1/10,000th of an inch. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 58 wordsNo official advice had been received that R.A.A.F. squadrons were engaged in the Libyan drive, the Minister for Air, Mr. ...
Article : 331 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The Invalid and Old Age Pensions Bill, which increases the pension rate from 21/6 to 23/6 a week, passed ...
Article : 281 wordsA spectacular ceremony in Martin Place last night brought A.I.F. Reinforcements Week to a close. More than 500 Boy ...
Article : 401 wordsWASHINGTON, Nov. 21. (A.A.P.).—As reports came in today of renewed clashes and shooting on the coalfields, U.S. ...
Article : 210 wordsLONDON, Nov. 21.—Tula, where the Russians are resolutely opposing the German attempts to widen the breach ...
Article : 380 wordsLONDON, Nov. 21 (A.A.P.).— The Food Ministry has instructed dairymen that they must not supply adults with more than a ...
Article : 162 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Positions held by the Commonwealth Prices Commissioner, Professor Copland, were enumerated by the Prime Minister, ...
Article : 196 wordsThe Bondi Agents' Association has canvassed its members to discover whether they know of cases of rents being increased above the August. ...
Article : 124 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The Cockatoo Dock and Engineering Co. Pty. Ltd. and other companies engaged on war work are ...
Article : 293 wordsLONDON, Nov. 21 (A.A.P.).— Latest despatches from the front refer to fierce fighting at Tula and Kalinin, where the ...
Article : 228 wordsOTTAWA, Nov. 21. (A.A.P.).—The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. J. G. Gardiner, addressing dairy farmers said it was estimated that Canada was ...
Article : 81 wordsLONDON, Nov. 21 (Official Wireless).—The convoy situation in the Western Ocean is greatly improved, according to ...
Article : 184 wordsEnlistments in the R.A.A.F. had fallen so greatly that Australia was in danger of failing in her obligations under the ...
Article : 234 wordsLONDON, Nov. 21.—Diamonds —not munitions—was the first request from Russia to Britain, and was answered quickly by the ...
Article : 169 wordsDetails of a call-up for employment appear under "Positions Vacant" and "Situations Vacant" on pages 22 and 23. ...
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Advertising : 83 wordsLONDON, Nov. 21.—It is authoritatively stated that a report that the B.B.C. last night, after announcing the British ...
Article : 171 wordsLONDON, Nov. 21 (A.A.P.).— "The Soviet Government would like to base its post-war policy on the closest possible ...
Article : 326 wordsLONDON, Nov. 21.—Two Ministers of the Netherlands Government in London have resigned because of differences of ...
Article : 186 wordsLONDON, Nov. 21. (A.A.P.)—A German U-boat has been destroyed in the area in the Mediterranean where two days ...
Article : 107 wordsLONDON, Nov. 21 (A.A.P.).— The Germans are reported to have installed a long range gun every 90 yards between Calais ...
Article : 158 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.— The Australian Agricultural Council to-day supported an apple and pear acquisition scheme for 1942. ...
Article : 157 wordsLONDON, Nov. 21. (A.A.P.).— In furtherance of Australia's close watch on the development of torpedo-carriers, an ...
Article : 91 wordsWASHINGTON. Nov. 21 (A.A.P.).— The Yugoslav freighter Olga Topic (4,375 tons), which, it was feared, had been sunk by a German raider, has ...
Article : 68 wordsLONDON. Nov. 21.—An enemy Eboat has been sunk, two others probably have been sunk, and others have been damaged in engagements with ...
Article : 178 wordsOTTAWA, Nov. 21 (A.A.P.).— Five survivors from a torpedoed British freighter who have landed at a Canadian port said ...
Article : 109 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.-Frederick James Affleck, 35. labourer, eldest son of the ninth Baronet of Dalham. County Suffolk, was sentenced in the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 29 wordsLONDON. Nov. 21.—In Berlin yesterday there was solemn State funeral for the Quartermaster-General of the Luftwaffe. General Udet. who was ...
Article : 69 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The improvement of facilities for the payment at post-offices of allotments to dependants of Australian soliders will be ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 22 Nov 1941, Page 14
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