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  2. Advertising

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  3. Overtime is Producing the Comet in Quantity

    6000 workers at the De Havilland factory at Watford, Herts, are working overtime to make a 5½-day week, producing in quantity the Comet, the world's first four-jet airliner. Sixteen are now building, and plans are being considered for a substantial increase in production in order to give Britain a clear lead in air transport at home and in dollar-exrning countries. It has also been ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 329 words
  4. Move To Abolish A.L.P. Plebiscites

    BRISBANE, December 18.—A motion aiming at the abolition of A.L.P. plebiscites has been placed on the Labour-in-Politics triennial ...

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  5. LIBERAL — C. PARTY FEDERAL CABINET

    MELBOURNE, December 18.—Four Queenslanders, Messrs. A. W. Fadden (Deputy Prime Minister), J. Francis (Navy and Army), Senators Neil O'Sullivan (Trade and Customs), and Walter Cooper (Repatriation) have made ...

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  6. BEER DRUNK GALLON PER MINUTE

    MELBOURNE, December 18.— To the strains of a jazz band 300 people drank beer at the rate of a gallon a minute when ...

    Article : 159 words
  7. SHANGHAI DANGER ZONE TO U.S. SHIPS

    WASHINGTON, December 18.—The United States to-day proclaimed Shanghai and its approaches a "zone of danger" ...

    Article : 73 words
  8. SEVEN VICTIMS IN FAMILY FEUD

    LONDON, December 17: An officer of the Rangoon armed police to-day mowed down six members of his ...

    Article : 87 words
  9. TWO KILLED IN CRANE COLLAPSE

    SYDNEY, December 18.— Two men were killed when a crane collapsed and fell 120 feet at Nebo colliery, ...

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  10. A.L.P. NOMINEE DEFEATS COMMS.

    SYDNEY, December 18.—Mr. George H. Neilly (33), an A.L.P candidate and a vigorous opponent of Communism. has been ...

    Article : 115 words
  11. COMMUNISTS OFF IN NEWCASTLE

    SYDNEY, December 18.—Communists in Newcastle are belived to be shifting their offices to new quarters. ...

    Article : 131 words
  12. BOY'S FIND CLEARED SAFE ROBBERY

    MELBOURNE, December 18.— A £100 safe robbery at East Kew was discovered to-day after a small boy found a discarded ...

    Article : 160 words
  13. sHOME DEPOSIT FUND POPULAR

    BRISBANE, December 18—The Housing Minister (Mr. Power) said to-night that the home builders deposit trust fund established ...

    Article : 77 words
  14. SMOKER PAYS 39% OF U.K. REVENUE

    LONDON, December 17.—The smoker is again the largest single contributor to revenue of Britain's Exchequer, says the "Daily ...

    Article : 105 words
  15. DROWNED AFTER RACE CHALLENGE

    SYDNEY, December 18.— Marshall Sharpe, 28. was drowned in the Gunnamatta Bay boths at Cronulla to-day. Sharpe, a ...

    Article : 198 words
  16. QUAKES SHAKE ISLANDS

    BUENOS AIRES, December 18.—A series of strong earthquakes rocked Del Fuego Island, lying south of ...

    Article : 80 words
  17. DROWNED WHEN TRUCK CRASHED

    MELBOURNE, December 8.— A 43-year-old sawmiller was drowned when his utility truck crashed through a bridge into ...

    Article : 74 words
  18. BOY DROWNED IN CREEK

    SYDNEY, December 18.—Garry Bargarey, aged 5½, of Canley Vale, was drowned while he was padding in a creek at Canlev Vale. ...

    Article : 117 words
  19. SAW HUSBAND AND SON DROWN

    MELBOURNE, December 18.— A woman stood helpless on the beach yesterday at St. Leonard and saw her husband and ...

    Article : 114 words
  20. ARREST OF U.S. CITIZEN

    LONDON, December 17.—The Associated Press correspondent in Vienna says Mr. Israel Jacobson, director of the American Joint ...

    Article : 72 words
  21. MINER DROWNED WHEN FISHING

    SYDNEY, December 18.—victor Wakeman (53) a miner of Cessnock, was drowned in the] Myall River when he fell from a ...

    Article : 69 words
  22. SPEED RECORD ATTEMPT FAILS

    SYDNEY, December 18.—Miss Enid Nunn failed to-day in an attempt to set a world speed boat record when her boat, Do. leapt ...

    Article : 132 words
  23. TWO DROWNED WHEN LAUNCH CUT IN TWO

    MELBOURNE, December 18.—Two men, one aged 74, were drowned when their motor launch was cut in two by an outgoing liner in Port Phillip Bay this afternoon. The sole survivor of the tragedy ...

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  24. ARKABA HOLD-UP

    Speaking on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants' Association, the President, Mr. J. A. Hackett said ...

    Article : 188 words
  25. WROTE PAPER WITH MOUTH

    A HOSPITAL, attendant talking with 15-years-old infantile paralysis suffers Laurfe Scott in Austin Hospital, Melbourne, last week. Laurie last month sat for the intermediate Examination and wrote the answers with a pencil in this ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 76 words
  26. YOUNG SWEDES IN LONDON

    THESE young Swedes wearing national dress acted as stallholders at the Swedish Christmas Fair held in London last week ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 44 words
  27. 70,000 FIRES IN BRITAIN IN 1949

    LONDON, December 18.—A total of 70,000 outbreaks, of fire have made 1949 Britain's worst peacetime year in history for ...

    Article : 67 words
  28. Five Killed Racing to Plane Crash

    VERA CRUZ (Mexico). Dec. 17.—Five persons were killed to-day in motor car accidents while racing to a mountain top ...

    Article : 87 words
  29. 34 Arrests In Dope Round-Up

    CHICAGO, December 17.— Federal narcoties agents arrested at least 29 men and five women carly this morning in ...

    Article : 61 words
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