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  2. RECOGNITION OF FULL EMPLOYMENT OBJECTIVE

    SAN FRANCISCO, Friday.—The Economic and Social Cooperation Committee of the World Security Conference has unanimously agreed to add full employment to the objectives of thc Social and Economic Council, and has also approved of American ...

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  3. PREFERENCE BILL AN "EMPTY SHAM"

    CANBERRA, Friday.—The seven-year limitation of preference imposed by the Re-Establishment and Employment Bill was included in the measure because of an A.C.T.U. resolution agreed to in March last, Mr. Corser (CP., Q'ld.) declared when he resumed thc second-reading debate in the House of ...

    Article : 418 words
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    AUSTRALIANS IN TARAKAN. Above: Freed from the Japanese, those civilians on Tarakan flocked to the landing beach to welcome the Australians. Right: As ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 59 words
  5. WOMAN OF 80 GAVE BOY £85 TO GET HER A HUSBAND

    SYDNEY, Friday.—A boy aged 12 persuaded an 80-year-old spinster to give him £85 to get her a husband, Detective Laugton told the Parramatta ...

    Article : 223 words
  6. STRYCHNINE INFERIOR AND EXPENSIVE

    CANBERRA, Friday.—Better strychnine for poisoning rabbits was urged in the House of Representatives to-day by Mr. Guy (Lib., Tas.). He had received ...

    Article : 87 words
  7. EFFORTS TO GET BARLEY FROM AMERICA

    MELBOURNE, Friday. — If shipping be available, Australia may receive substantial quantities of barley from America to eliminate the ...

    Article : 101 words
  8. MANY TASMANIANS FIGHTING WITH ARMORED DIVISION ON TARAKAN

    Tasmania supplied many men who manned the tanks which went into action with the Australians on Tarakan. It is the first time a unit of the Armored Division had been in action. A former Devonport school teacher, ...

    Article : 554 words
  9. Supplies For Men In Japanese Hands

    CANBERRA, Friday. — Negotiations have been opened, it is understood, between the Federal Government and the south-East ...

    Article : 113 words
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    Dr Chen Shen-yen (right), young Chinese physician who gave [?] medical care to five of Lieutenant Colonel (now Lieutenant General) James Doclittle's airmen forced down in China after the first U.S. strike against the Japanese homeland on April 18, 1942, chats with ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 73 words
  11. U.S. LEADERS IN PHILIPPINES

    Major General William H. Arnold commanded the American Division of the U.S. Eighth Army which landed on Cebu island in the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 68 words
  12. Japanese Cut Off In Arakon

    BOMBAY, Friday — The link-up of troops advancing southwards from Prome and those advancing northwards from Rangoon along the Prome-Rangoon road ...

    Article : 104 words
  13. Landlines For Commercial Broadcasts

    CANBERRA, Friday. — If broadcasting land-lines could be made available to commercial stations for interstate race broadcasts, why could they ...

    Article : 113 words
  14. LIFTING OF BAN ON SHOP DELIVERIES

    CANBERRA, Friday. — Lifting of the ban on deliveries from shops, at least to expectant mothers and elderly people, particularly in courtry areas ...

    Article : 122 words
  15. SPECIAL PETROL ISSUE FOR CARRIERS

    CANBERRA, Friday.— A special petrol ration will be issued to delivery carriers who have been forced to withdraw their ...

    Article : 89 words
  16. QUALIFICATIONS FOR NEW AWARDS

    CANBERRA, Friday.—The acting Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) said to-day that qualifications for the new awards announced by the ...

    Article : 288 words
  17. Australians Nearing East Coast of Tarakan

    TARAKAN, Friday.—Australian troops pushing down the Amal river are now less than a mile from the east coast of Tarakan. ...

    Article : 85 words
  18. SANK LAST ENEMY DESTROYERS IN MEDITERRANEAN

    LONDON, Friday — The British destroyers Lookout and Meteor sank two of the last three German destroyers in the Mediterranean in a ...

    Article : 134 words
  19. N.S.W. COAL LOSSES

    SYDNEY, Friday. — Losses from all stoppages on coalfields in N.S.W. since March 2 were only 18,700, or about 7000 tons more than the February figure, ...

    Article : 57 words
  20. POWER-HOUSE STRIKERS REFUSE TO WORK

    SYDNEY, Friday. — By an overwhelming majority, the Bunnerong electric power-house strikers to-day rejected a recommendation from the ...

    Article : 124 words
  21. Step Taken To Form Town Planning Committee At Burnie

    The initial step in the formation of a Burnie town planning committee was taken at a meeting of combined progress associations ...

    Article : 390 words
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    Above: As U.S. soldiers look on, a Ryuku mother and her small son hold rations given to them by American forces who found them in the hills of one of the Kerama Islands, which were secured before the U.S. invasion of Okinawa, main island in the Ryuku (Loochoo) ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 109 words
  23. To Eliminate Unfit Farmers And Uneconomic Holdings

    CANBERRA, Friday. — The Constitution of a permanent settlement reconstruction authority to dispose of existing and future problems of distressed farms and rural areas; promote satisfactory individual farming and improve farming methods ...

    Article : 467 words
  24. CIVIL MOBILISATION IN BELGIUM

    BRUSSELS, Friday.—The Government is applying civil mobilisation to all sectors of national activity for three months, during ...

    Article : 120 words
  25. LATE NEWS

    LONDON, Friday —The aggregate attendance for the three-day Anglo-Australlan "Victory Test", beginning to-morrow, is expected to be 100,000, ...

    Article : 103 words
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