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  2. SOFTGOODS MARGINS EARLY REVIEW OF CUT NOT ASSURED

    HOBART, Wednesday.—Doubt was expressed by the Premier (Mr. Cosgrove) to-day as to whether Stare Government efforts to arrange an early conference to consider the recent 7½ p.c. average cut in prices of softgoods, would be successful. ...

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  3. SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL DIES AT 63

    Sir Malcolm Campbell, world water speed record holder and several times holder of the land speed record, died ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. SEES DANGER OF JAPANESE RESURGENCE

    TOKIO, Wednesday.—The Soviet Union to-day accused the United States of using the Japanese police force to provide the nucleus of a new Japanese army. The accusation was made at a meeting of the Allied Council ...

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  5. Sleeping Since New Year's Eve

    BARCELONA, Wednesday. — Senor and Senora Jose Rius went to bed in their home in Barcelona on New Year's Eve ...

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  6. Stole Van, £2000 Worth of Tobacco

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday. — A clever band of thieves is believed to have been responsible for the theft of a panel van laden with tobacco ...

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  7. Teeming Millions of Japan

    TOKIO, Wednesday.—Japan's population increased by over 2,000,000 between October, 1947, and October, 1948, to 80,697,491, ...

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  8. Nurses Demand Control of Own Profession

    SYDNEY, Wednesday. — A mass meeting of members of the N.S.W. Nurses' Association this evening decided to demand that ...

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  9. Would Like to See Them "Broke"

    MOSCOW.—A Soviet journalist, David Zaslavsky, declared in the Soviet Communist Party newspaper, "Pravda," ...

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  10. NEW THREAT TO SYDNEY WATERFRONT

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A dispute involving shipping clerks threatens to render the whole of the Sydney waterfront ...

    Article : 103 words
  11. THREE BELIEVED DROWNED

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.— Three men are believed to have been drowned while on a fishing trip in the bay near Werribee ...

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  12. HUMAN HAND IN TIGER SHARK

    PERTH, Wednesday.—The left hand of a human being was found in the stomach of an eight-foot tiger shark, ...

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  13. Toll of Tornado

    WARREN (Arkansas), Wednesday. — There were 54 known dead and more than 250 injured this evening in the ...

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  14. Says Russians Are Inscrutable

    BERLIN, Wednesday. — Miss Linda Adams, 67-year-old Australian woman, who lived in Germany through two wars and two reigns ...

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  15. £1½ MILLION OIL REFINERY PROPOSED

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday. — More than £1,500,000 will be spent on building a refinery at Geelong, for all grades of bitumen and many lubricants, upon which work will commence almost immediately. ...

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  16. SEVEN DEAD IN AIR CRASH

    COLFAX (California), Wednesday. —An Air Force C47 transport plane, based at Ogden, Utah, crashed and was burned in the snow-covered ...

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  17. Stowed Away in Fiancee's Trunk

    PERTH, Wednesday. — A 24-year-old German stowaway was found on the Yugoslav migrant ship, Partizanka, which reached Fremantle ...

    Article : 137 words
  18. B.C.O.F.'s MOTOR VEHICLES

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday. — The British Commonwealth Occupation Force troops in Japan own more than 400 vehicles, ranging from ...

    Article : 60 words
  19. THE QUEEN MARY LEAVES FOR U.S.

    LONDON, Wednesday. — After Lloyds' surveyors had granted a certificate of seaworthiness, the Cunard liner Queen Mary left ...

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  20. "NO OCCASION FOR JUBILATION"

    LONDON, Wednesday.—A motion to beflag Dublin's public buildings to celebrate Eire becoming a republic was withdrawn after opposition ...

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  21. More Japanese Infringements

    LONDON, Wednesday. — The Japanese were flagrantly infringing British fabric designs, Mr. E. H. Stewart, ...

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  22. NO TROUBLE TO GET STEEL AND CEMENT

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.— Overseas countries were anxious te meet Queensland's need for cement and steel, Mr. Gair ...

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  23. TENNIS TRIP WILL DEPEND ON BROMWICH

    NEW YORK, Wednesday. — The "World Telegram's" tennis writer says that unless Bromwich consents to lead the team as player-captain, ...

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  24. Big Increase in Air Business

    LONDON, Wednesday. — During 1948, BOAC aircraft flew 366,500,000 passenger miles and carried 119,343 passengers—an increase over 1947 of ...

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  25. Little Benefit for Five Years

    LONDON, Wednesday.—The Food Minister (Mr. Strachey) said it was premature to say that antrycide, the new drug for immunising ...

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  26. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FIGURES

    WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—Finai official revised returns of the Presidential election show that President Truman received 482,015 ...

    Article : 57 words
  27. HOME FLEET'S SPRING CRUISE

    LONDON, Wednesday. — The battleship Duke of York and other ships of the Home Fleet will sail from Portland on 31st inst. for a ...

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  28. "COSTLY FAILURE" IN JAPAN

    NEW YORK, Wednesday.— Hallett Abend, writing in "Look" magazine, accuses General MacArthur of making a ...

    Article : 331 words
  29. TRYING TO SELL ROYAL CARS

    LONDON, Wednesday.—The Australian Government has asked Australia House to endeavor to sell the six Daimler cars the Australian ...

    Article : 93 words
  30. Refused Tour of South Africa

    PERTH, Wednesday.—W.A. junior tennis champion, Clive Wilderspoon, has regretfully refused an invitation extended to him by the ...

    Article : 65 words
  31. Sydney Healthy City

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—No epidemics were reported in Sydney last year; and, generally, the city's health was very satisfactory ...

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