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Floods & storms, 1952

2,176 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 109

Indo-china Reds Storm Stockade

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 March 1952 · page 7

SAIGON, Thur. (B.U.P., AP.). -- After bitter hand to hand fighting French and…

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Indo-china Reds Storm Stockade

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 March 1952 · page 7

SAIGON, Thur. (B.U.P., A.P.). -- After bitter hand to hand fighting French and…

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Indo-china Reds Storm Stockade

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 March 1952 · page 7

SAIGON, Thur. (B.U.P., A.P.). -- After bitter hand to hand fighting French and…

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Blizzard Adds to Toll of Quake Japanese cut off in floods

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 March 1952 · page 4

TOKIO, Wed.--A blizzard last night deepened the misery of 10,000 Japanese homeless after yesterday's earthquake…

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Storm at Gas CO.'s MEETING

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 March 1952 · page 3

At a stormy annual meeting of the Australian Gas Light Company yesterday, shareholders told the board it was allowing the State Government to use the company as a political football. Shareholders clapped and…

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Painters Work by Floodlight on Liner

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 March 1952 · page 1

The floodlit while hull of the liner Gothic stood out against the night while being painted in the Captain Cook Dock last night. The Gothic was to have brought the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to Australia…

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Lightning Storm In Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 March 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. —Lightning struck a tram, halted two suburban trains, and caused blackouts in…

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Violent storm in Vic

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 March 1952 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Tues. -- A violent electrical storm struck Melbourne…

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Commons Storm Over Budget Cuts Food Is Dearer

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 March 1952 · page 1

LONDON, Wed.--The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Butler) caused a sensation with his budget speech in the House of…

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Commons Storm Over Budget Cuts Food Is Dearer

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 March 1952 · page 1

LONDON, Wed.--The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Butler) caused a sensation with his budget speech in the House of…

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Commons Storm Over Budget Cuts Food Is Dearer

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 March 1952 · page 1

LONDON, Wed.--The Chancel for of the Exchequer (Mr. Butler) caused a sensation with his budget speech in the House of…

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Commons Storm Over Budget Cuts Basic Food Dearer

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 March 1952 · page 1

LONDON, Wed.--The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr, Butler) caused a sensation with his budget speech in the House of…

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Commons Storm Over Budget Cuts Food Is Dearer

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 March 1952 · page 1

LONDON, Wed.-- The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Butler) caused a sensation with his budget speech in the House of…

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Commons Storm Over Budget Cuts Basic Food Dearer

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 March 1952 · page 1

LONDON, Wed.--The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Butler) caused a sensation with his budget speech in the House of…

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Commons Storm Over Budget Cuts Basic Food Dearer

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 March 1952 · page 1

LONDON, Wed.-- The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Butler) caused a sensation with his budget speech in the House of…

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2000 storm city shop for shirts

The Sun · Thursday 13 March 1952 · page 5

More than 2000 people, mostly men, fought for fuji silk shirts at Hordern Bros., Pitt St., store today. Clutching pound notes…

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Cyclone Div. Unchanged

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 14 March 1952 · page 18

Cyclone Co. of Australia, Ltd., is maintaining its interim ordinary dividend of 5 p.c. for the half-year…

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Cyclone at Full Production

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 March 1952 · page 7

Cyclone Co. of Aust. Ltd. has been workinig at full capacity because of planning in purchases of raw materials, directors state…

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Steady Interim for Cyclone Co

The Sun · Friday 14 March 1952 · page 16

Cyclone Co., of Australia Ltd., is paying a steady 5 pc interim dividend on ordinary shares for the six…

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Centre of Storm Royal Exiles Row Over Don's Wife

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 March 1952 · page 1

ROME, Friday. (D.M.W.C. and A.P.)--. The exiled Pretender to the throne of Spain (Don Juan) declared yesterday that the Spanish royal family did not recognise the wife of…

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