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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1948

1,220 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 61

Flood of Notes Into Bank in U.k

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 January 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Friday.-- Plain vans drawn up at the back of the Bank of England have delivered during the week…

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Huge Liner Runs Into Violent Storm

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 January 1948 · page 3

NEW YORK, Saturday. -- The British liner, Queen Mary, second largest ship in the. world, ran into a storm of…

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Huge Liner Runs Into Violent Storm

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 January 1948 · page 3

NEW YORK, Saturday. -- The British liner, Queen Mary, second largest ship in the world, ran into a storm of…

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Huge Liner Runs Into Violent Storm

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 January 1948 · page 3

NEW YORK, Saturday. -- The British liner, Queen Mary, second largest ship in the world, ran into a storm of…

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Huge Liner Runs Into Violent Storm

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 January 1948 · page 3

NEW YORK, Saturday. -- The British liner, Queen Mary, second largest ship in the world, ran into a storm of…

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Queueing Ends As Goods Flood Soviet Shops

Tribune · Saturday 17 January 1948 · page 2

LONDON-—While American workers face harder times under the combined impact of the Marshall Plan and Truman’s record war budget, Russians are enjoying their first post-war…

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Gale Hits Yacht Man Knocked Out

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 January 1948 · page 1

AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Sunday.—Trygve Halvorsen was knocked unconscious when thrown from…

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Big Storm Strikes Polar Ship

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 January 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Tales of tremendous seas, gales exceeding 100 miles an hour and fearsome…

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Weird Storm Delays Big Atlantic Liner

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 19 January 1948 · page 3

NEW YORK, Sunday.--An unusual storm in mid-Atlantic, with 40ft. waves, torrential rain, but no wind, yesterday tossed the 26,000-ton liner America around like a cork…

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Gale Victims Saved Cat

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--Nine Australian survivors from a yawl which foundered yesterday lost…

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Australians On Scrapheap As US Comics Flood Is Unchecked

Tribune · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 6

Two years ago four American comics were being printed monthly in Australia. At the beginning of last October the number had risen to 23…

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Thunderstorms Likely Today

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 6

ANOTHER sultry day, with the likelihood of thunderstorms late this afternoon, was predicted by an official of the…

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Thunderstorms Likely Today

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 5

ANOTHER sultry day, with the likelihood of thunderstorms late this afternoon, was predicted by an official of the…

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Thunderstorms Likely Today

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 6

ANOTHER sultry day, with the likelihood of thunderstorms late this afternoon, was predicted by an official of the…

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Thunderstorms Likely Today

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 5

ANOTHER sultry day, with the likelihood of thunderstorms late this afternoon, was predicted by an official of the…

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South To Storm-swept Heard Island

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 2

LAST month an Australian scientific expedition was landed on Heard Island. This is an account of the adventurous voyage to the island and the sub-Antarctic made by LST3501,…

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Track Flooded by Running Tap From Our Special Reporter

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 January 1948 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Friday.—A portion of the 100 yards track for the Australian sprint championship was flooded when a nearby tap was left running throughout last night…

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On the ball Seconds out of the ring in athletics ... caravan in a storm

The Sun · Sunday 25 January 1948 · page 16

True blue. You've heard about true amateurs--the chaps who turn up each week for an…

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Gales, Snow in U.S.A. Storm Strikes New York

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, Jan. 25 (A.A.P.).—A blizzard which lashed the entire eastern seaboard of the United States…

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Plane Dodges Storm

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 January 1948 · page 3

A PAN AMERICAN AIR WAYS Clipper en route from San Francisco is flying direct from Fiji to Sydney…

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