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2. A new headliner rocks Fleet Street.
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PUBLISHING ,NEWSPAPER employees ,LABOR unions ,NEWSPAPER strikes - Abstract
The article reports on efforts by Australian tycoon Rupert Murdoch to rejuvenate the British publishing industry by focusing on improving profits and fighting excessive demands from newspapers unions. Murdoch, who has bought "News of the World" and "Sun," faces wage demands by "Sun" journalists and a strike notice. The growth of "Sun" after its acquisition by Murdoch and Murdoch's News Ltd. publishing empire in Australia are described.
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- 1970
3. BLUE BOOKS 1852.
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GOLD mining ,SOCIAL history ,MINERS ,SOCIAL psychology ,AUSTRALIAN history, 1788-1851 ,BRITISH politics & government, 1837-1901 - Abstract
Excerpts from August 1852 British Parliamentary reports and papers regarding the 1851 discovery of gold in Australia from the 12th Report of the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners are presented. Command 1430, compiled from a report by J. R. Hardy, Commissioner of Crown Lands, considers topics such as mining licenses, police in mining areas, and cost of provisions. Command 1508 considers the administration of criminal justice, how towns such as Melbourne and Geelong were abandoned by gold-seekers, and the abandonment of anchored vessels.
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- 1952
4. British Economists and Australian Gold.
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Goodwin, Craufurd D.
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GOLD mines & mining -- History ,ECONOMISTS - Abstract
Focuses on the views of British economists on the significance of Australian gold discoveries in 1851, in conjunction with their assessment of the overall value of the colonies. How information about the gold flowed from Australia to Britain; Discussion about the probable effects of the discoveries; Immediate reaction of most economies to the discoveries.
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- 1970
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5. Consumer Demand and Welfare Indexes: A Comparative Study for the United Kingdom and Australia.
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van Hoa, Tran
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CONSUMER behavior ,CONSUMER price indexes ,CONSUMPTION (Economics) ,INCOME - Abstract
In this paper an attempt is made, first, to study consumer behaviour in the United Kingdom and in Australia for the period 1956-66 by exploiting the concept of want independence [9] or directly additive preferences [4] for a complete model of linear expenditure relations [10]. A welfare indicator and a cost-of-living index are then developed using Frisch's money flexibility linking income and price elasticities and the strongly separable utility function of the Stone-Geary type [3]. Finally, the analysis of covariance is applied to examine the possibility of homogeneous demand patterns between the United Kingdom and Australia. The extent of market homogeneity or heterogeneity will be further analysed in the light of individual commodities grouped in strict accordance with the notion of neutral want association [9]. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1969
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6. Australia Will Help Produce Britain's Food.
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FOOD production - Abstract
The article reports that Western Australia and Queensland are looking to have a significant share of the 200 million U.S. dollars fund that Great Britain is setting up to bolster the food production of the British Empire.
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- 1947
7. No Room at the Top.
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McWilliams, Carey
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EMIGRATION & immigration ,IMMIGRANTS ,EXPATRIATION ,POPULATION dynamics ,GOVERNMENT policy - Abstract
This article focuses on the issue of large scale immigration and emigration case in Great Britain. Over the last twenty years, there was a trend of immigration in Britain in a large scale mostly by immigrations from Commonwealth countries, primarily from the Caribbean. But in the year 1963, there was a accelerating trend of emigration of Britons, primarily to Australia. In that year, the Australian government has reportedly received 145,000 applications from residents of Great Britain who wanted to settle in Australia. To have control over this population dynamics, the effectiveness of the Commonwealth Immigrants Act was supposedly found ineffective.
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- 1963
8. The Boys Who Rule the World.
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Rexroth, Kenneth
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INVESTORS ,CONFERENCES & conventions ,UNITED States politics & government - Abstract
Seven hundred capitalists is a lot of capitalists to see at once. They are members of the blue-serge and gray-flannel and pin-stripe international, just like the people in the corridors of the U.N. or in any professional, technical or administrative convention the world over, including the other side of the Iron Curtain. The so-called free world seems to be divided pretty clearly into three groups. First are the United States of America, Canada and Australia, the other predominantly white or white-governed Dominions, Latin America and, to a much lesser degree, Great Britain itself.
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- 1957
9. Observation as a Method of Inquiry -- The Background of Securities and Obscurities.
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Chambers, R. J.
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ACCOUNTING methods ,ACCOUNTING education ,INQUIRY (Theory of knowledge) ,CORPORATIONS - Abstract
This article discusses the accounting methods proposed in the book Securities and Obscurities and the suitability of the book for the study of accounting. It relates principally to the features of the accounting of particular companies and to what has happened as a consequence of the accounting of particular companies. It relates to companies in Australia, Great Britain and the U.S. The book proposes the method of direct observation as a method of inquiry. The inquiries founded on the belief that the test of any actual form, and the grounds for any proposed form, of accounting lie in those observable events of the commercial, financial and professional communities which are in the nature of reactions or responses to, and consequences of, particular accounting practices.
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- 1973
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10. REPORTING PUBLIC OPINION IN FIVE NATIONS.
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Gallup, George
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PUBLIC opinion polls ,SOCIAL surveys ,POLITICAL psychology - Abstract
Cross-section surveys of public opinion are now being conducted continuously in five countries-the U.S., Great Britain, Canada, Australia and Sweden. Through these surveys it has become possible for the first time to measure and to report the views of the common man on the same issue at the same time in five nations of the globe with a combined population of nearly 200,000,000. Sampling surveys as a means of systematically discovering public opinion make no claim to perfection or infallibility. But through their development it has become possible to chart the main trends of public opinion in the five nations and to study the impact of war events on public thinking. The American Institute, oldest of the five, has been measuring and reporting American opinion for seven years. It receives its entire financial support from more than one hundred daily newspapers, of all shades of political belief.
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- 1942
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11. THE UNIVERSAL FEATURES OF ZONATION BETWEEN TIDE-MARKS ON ROCKY COASTS.
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Stephenson, T. A. and Stephenson, Anne
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INTERTIDAL zonation ,SEASHORE biology ,COASTS ,LITTORINA ,BROWN algae ,SNAILS ,BARNACLES ,LICHENS - Abstract
The article presents a discussion on a study about zonation between tide-marks on rocky coasts in various regions and areas including England, Scotland, the Indian Ocean and the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. Plants and animals also live in these zones between tide-marks. On the British coasts, there were three possible types of zonation observed, namely the littorina zone, the balanoid zone and the laminarian zone. Plants and animals found in these zones include small snails, lichens, barnacles and brown algae.
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- 1949
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12. VEGETATION OF GRASS VERGES AND OTHER EXCESSIVELY TRODDEN HABITATS.
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Davies, William
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GRASSES ,VEGETATION dynamics ,CLIMATIC factors of phytogeography ,PLANT ecology ,BOTANY ,TRAILS ,PLANT communities - Abstract
The article presents a discussion on the vegetation of grass verges and explores the grass habitats which are regarded as excessively trodden places. It is implied that a considerable degree of similarity exist between the vegetation of the trampled grass verge found on highways and that of the grassy footpath or the sheep track situated whether on lowlands or at high elevation. The article is supplemented with details regarding the botanical composition of the plant communities, ecological distribution, climatic and edaphic backgrounds, and observations drawn from investigating samples coming from Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand.
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- 1938
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13. THE MARKETING OF READY MADE FOOTWEAR IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
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Sutton, G. B.
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FOOTWEAR industry ,INTERNATIONAL trade ,NEW product development ,DIRECT selling ,MARKETING ,HISTORY of commerce ,NINETEENTH century ,HISTORY - Abstract
Discusses marketing of footwear in the 19th century, focusing on the company C. & J. Clark Ltd., in light of records dating back to 1825. The general development of the ready-made footwear industry in Great Britain; Background on the founding of C. & J. Clark; The marketing policy of the firm, including product differentiation and quality; The introduction of a range of fittings and sizes for shoes; The company's contribution to style; Brand management; Bulk production of standardized goods; Exports and distribution failures; The consignment trade; The reason C. & J. Clark started a wholesale business; The use of direct selling by a traveller; Difficulties with the Australian trade.
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- 1964
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14. Specialists in British and Australian Government Services: A Study in Contrast.
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Subramanian, V.
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PUBLIC administration ,CIVIL service ,PUBLIC service employment ,GOVERNMENT policy ,FREE enterprise ,LEGISLATIVE bills ,LABOR costs - Abstract
The author discusses the role and status of the generalist and the specialist by contrasting Australian and British practice in government services. With the disperse and not easily exploitable resources of the Australian Colonies, the development of the country became the responsibility of Colonial Governments as of private enterprise. The first public service legislation in Australia, the Victorian Service Act of 1862, divided the whole service into a Professional and an Ordinary Division, with no special recognition for the head of a department. On the other hand, the Institution of Professional Civil Servants has been making efforts to obtain better salaries and a better share in the administration of professional departments since 1918 in Great Britain.
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- 1963
15. SOME THOUGHTS ON DEMOCRACY.
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Mackenzie, J.S.
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DEMOCRACY ,COUNTRIES ,CIVILIZATION - Abstract
The article focuses on issues related to democracy. The importance of trying to understand democracy at the present time is very apparent. In some sense or other, it is more and more coming to be recognised as the dominant tendency in all those countries that are commonly described as civilized. And, indeed, in nearly all parts of the world the various countries seem to be approximating to a common civilization, which is largely based on principles of a democratic type. It is perhaps in some of the smaller countries, such as Switzerland, and in some of the younger colonies, such as Australia and New Zealand, that these democratic tendencies can be studied in their least diluted form. In Great Britain, notwithstanding the strong tendency that it has to cling to the traditions of the past, it can hardly be questioned that the influence of democratic ideals is constantly increasing. This influence is not confined to the sphere of imperial or local politics, but permeates whole life of the British.
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- 1911
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16. Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year Ending June 30, 1904. Volume 1
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Department of the Interior, United States Bureau of Education (ED)
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Volume 1 begins with the Commissioner of Education's introduction and includes state school-system statistics. Chapter I covers education in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Chapter II presents children's growth statistics collected in Worcester, Mass., Toronto, Ontario, and Milwaukee. Chapter III addresses German university pension and insurance beneficiary regulations. Chapter IV presents a digest of school laws on governance, teachers, and schools for each state except Florida, Idaho, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Chapter V discusses the University of Paris during the Middle Ages. Chapter VI presents the proceedings of an Armstrong Association meeting on the work and influence of Hampton Institute, including a letter from former U.S. president Grover Cleveland and addresses by Andrew Carnegie, Harvard president Charles W. Eliot, Hampton principal H.B. Frissell, and Booker T. Washington. Chapter VII addresses public school temperance instruction and the liquor question, with reports from Connecticut, New York State, and Massachusetts, as well as information on Prussian temperance instruction. Chapter VIII presents early English writers' notices on education from 1578 to 1603. Subsequent chapters address German juvenile criminality; Southeastern Alaska's Hlingit language grammar and vocabulary; the Swedish education system; British and Irish education in 1903; and English higher education, i.e., secondary, technical, and evening schools, and the 1902 law requiring councils to support schools higher than elementary schools. Chapters XIV and XV cover education at the St. Louis Exposition, including state and territorial and educational institution exhibits. Chapter XVI discusses the final establishment of the American common school system in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia between 1863 and 1900. Chapter XVII reprints the Alaskan-education general agent's 1890 preliminary report and 1892 report on introducing domestic reindeer into Alaska. Chapter XVIII offers "A Definition of Civilization," the Indian Industrial School commencement address by W.T. Harris, and papers by Harris on "Art Education the True Industrial Education" and "The Intellectual Value of Tool Work." Chapter XIX is a list of U.S. education periodicals. Chapter XX is a directory of chief state school officers, city superintendents, college presidents, pedagogy professors and university and college pedagogy department heads, and normal-school principals. [For Volume 2, see ED620501.]
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- 1906
17. The Bandwagon.
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HORSES ,VEHICLES ,FOOD quality ,ORGANIZATION ,DOGS - Abstract
Presents news items published in several newspapers. Information that on the metropolitan courses in Australia, a special vehicle was employed for the removal of a killed horse off the track; Statement that British Army's Form F-735, a new certificate for condemnation of food, orders that a medical officer should check the quality of food; Demand made by Humane Education League that a municipal morals code should be prepared for canines.
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- 1946
18. 'The Republic of India'.
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Rao, Shiva
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POLITICAL autonomy - Abstract
The article presents information on the independence of India. In many ways it has been a memorable fortnight, crowded with big events-the opening of the Constituent Assembly in New Delhi, first Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's magnificent speech outlining its objectives, and the parliamentary debate on India in London. Nehru returned from his dramatic flight to London disappointed but not embittered. America, Australia, and China sent messages of good-will which the chairman read out on the opening day, but none came from Great Britain.
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- 1946
19. Foreign Correspondence.
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Horwill, Herbert W.
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INTERNATIONAL relations ,MASS media & propaganda ,BRITISH foreign relations ,AUSTRALIAN foreign relations - Abstract
The Australian Prime Minister's oratorical tour of Great Britain is receiving almost as big advertisement in a section of the London press as did British politician Arthur Neville Chamberlain's "raging and tearing propaganda" in 1903. One can scarcely believe that this attention is being given to the Australian Prime Minister purely out of compliment to the colonies, or even in recognition of his personal eminence. Nor does the alleged purpose of his tour explain the phenomenon. Ostensibly the object of his mission is to emphasize the necessity of "organization," but it is difficult to suppose that this journalistic boom is inspired by a sudden passion for system as the great desideratum in British business life.
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- 1918
20. AUSTRALIA HELPS BRITAIN.
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AERONAUTICS - Abstract
The article reports that in line with the decentralization plan of its aircraft research and production plants, the British Commonwealth Advisory Aeronautical Research Council announced that the equivalent of 100 million U.S. dollars will be spent in Australia and New Zealand for centers of aircraft, radio, and radar research including a wind tunnel, a rocket range, and radar testing.
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- 1948
21. INDEXES OF AVERAGE PRICES OF AUSTRALIAN IMPORTS FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM 1919-20 TO 1927-28.
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Bambrick, Susan
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PRICE indexes ,IMPORTS ,COMMERCE - Abstract
Presents indexes of average prices of Australian imports from Great Britain from 1919-20 to 1927-28. Food, drink and tobacco; Living animals; Raw materials and articles mainly unmanufactured.
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- 1967
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