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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1948

1,220 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 61

Flood Relief—For Cane Cutters Only

The Land · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 16

An intimation from the Department of Labor and Industry that the sums of £500 and £250 granted for flood relief on the Lower Clarence…

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Reds Start Storm in U.n. Council

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 August 1948 · page 3

NEW YORK, Friday.--Russia started a sharp verbal battle in the usually tranquil United Nations…

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Reds Start Storm in U.n. Council

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 August 1948 · page 3

NEW YORK, Friday.--Russia started a sharp verbal battle in the usually tranquil United Nations…

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Reds Start Storm in U.n. Council

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 August 1948 · page 3

NEW YORK, Friday.--Russia started a sharp verbal battle in the usually tranquil United Nations…

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Govt. Grant for Flood Damage Repair Urged

The Land · Friday 6 August 1948 · page 19

Local governing bodies in the recently flooded areas of the North Coast were at the end of their tether in regard to meeting the cost of…

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Determined To Check River Floods

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 August 1948 · page 10

FLOOD prevention and mitigation on the Richmond River was discussed at a recent meeting of representatives of the…

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Government Gift Urged For Flood Areas

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 August 1948 · page 20

UNLESS local governing bodies in the recently flooded North Coast areas of N.S.W. received a…

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Big Death Roll in Yellow River Flood

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 3

THANKING, Saturday.-- About 3500 were drowned and 400,000 are homeless as a result of floods in the Yellow River in…

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Big Death Roll in Yellow River Flood

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 3

NANKING, Saturday.--About 3500 were drowned and 400,000 are homeless as a result of floods in the Yellow River in…

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Big Death Roll in Yellow River Flood

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 1

NANKING, Saturday.--About 3500 were drowned" "and 400,000 are homeless as a result of floods, in the Yellow River in…

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Big Death Roll in Yellow River Flood

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 2

NANKING, Saturday.--About 3500 were drowned and 400,000 are homeless as a result of floods in the Yellow River in…

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Big Death Roll in Yellow River Flood

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 3

RANKING, Saturday.--About 3500 were drowned and 400,000 are homeless as a result of floods in the Yellow River in…

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Big Death Roll in Yellow River Flood

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 3

NANKING, Saturday.--About 3500 were drowned and 400,000 are homeless as a result of floods in the Yellow River in…

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Big Death Roll in Yellow River Flood

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 2

NANKING, Saturday.--About 3500 were drowned and 400,000 are homeless as a result of floods in the Yellow River…

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Storm Raised by President

Truth · Sunday 8 August 1948 · page 5

NEW YORK, Saturday.—Angered by President Truman's declaration that the current Washington spy probe was a "red herring" to distract people's attention from the threatening economic collapse,…

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Australia on Fag-end of Fag Deal Imports Flood Market Smokers Pay Through Nose

Truth · Sunday 8 August 1948 · page 5

A great mystery has developed on the tobacco front, and none of a dozen officials contacted by Truth this week was able to provide the solution…

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11 DIE, 4 Missing in Channel Gale English Town Flooded Storm Rages Through Kent

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 5

LONDON, Monday. -- Thousands are homeless, and at least nine persons have been drowned, with tour missing, in freak Channel storms which have…

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11 DIE, 4 Missing in Channel Gale English Town Flooded Storm Rages Through Kent

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.-- Thousands are homeless, and at least nine persons have been drowned, with four missing, in freak Channel storms which have…

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11 DIE, 4 Missing in Channel Gale English Town Flooded Storm Rages Through Kent

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.--Thousands are homeless, and at least nine persons have been drowned, with four missing, in freak Channel storms which have…

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11 DIE, 4 Missing in Channel Gale English Town Flooded Storm Rages Through Kent

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 5

LONDON, Monday. -- Thousands are homeless, and at least nine persons have been drowned, with four missing, in freak Channel storms which have…

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