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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1950

11 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers

Night-long Storm Lashes City Craft In Harbor Wrecked SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 1

Torrential rain whipped up by a fierce nor-nor-easter, which exceeded 50 m.p.h., lashed Sydney and suburbs throughout last night and early today, causing widespread…

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Scientist Sees New Threat to Peace. Atom Bombs Could Be Planted on Tramp Steamer Washington

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 1

It would be easy for Russia to put atomic bombs into a tramp steamer, send it into a European harbor such as Copenhagen then reveal the threat, declared Doctor Harold Urey,…

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German Bid to Prevent Plant Wrecking London, Tuesday

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 7 March 1950 · page 1

German workers yesterday sacked the offices of the British Dismantling Commission at Watenstaat-Salzgitter and…

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Buck Rogers, 25th Century, A.d.- Shipwreck in Space

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 5

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Flood Wreckage & Desolation Was "Tremendous"

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 11 May 1950 · page 2

During the recent floods he was called out by the Army, and had to serve on amphibious. "Ducks" between Dubbo and…

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Home Wrecker's Triumph But love Finally Won Through

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 12 August 1950 · page 4

Liz Conover was beautiful— and heartless. Engaged to Tod Duncan, she rim away with another man while her fiance was…

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Heavy Vehicles Wreck Roads: Claim by M.l.a

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 31 October 1950 · page 2

Speaking in the Legislative Assembly on the proposal to divert the proceeds of taxes on road transport vehicles from the…

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Skin Too Dusky for Customs Girl Not Allowed Ashore SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 16 November 1950 · page 1

A young girl from Bombay, suspected of having more colored blood than indicated by her papers, was prevented from…

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Aluminium Funnel for British Steamer

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 24 November 1950 · page 5

As interest exhibit at the Engineering and Marine Exhibition at Glympia, London, was an aluminium alloy runnel, fabricated for the new British Railways streamlined Cross Channel steamer, the tss Brighton. The weight saving of the aluminium funnel against a steel…

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Is Damage Done Deliberately? Furniture Wrecked by Railways

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 24 November 1950 · page 7

So much damage is done to well parked furniture travel-ling by rail that it must have been done dellberately during the loading process, This is the conclusion arrived at…

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Twenty Thought Dead in N.Z. Launch Wreck Auckland

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 29 December 1950 · page 1

The deathroll in yesterday's tragic launch capsize at the entrance to Tauranga Harbor in the Bay of Plenty is now…

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