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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1952

2,176 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 109

£100 Million Flood Toll

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 April 1952 · page 16

NEW YORK, Friday (B.U.P.). -- Damage already done by the middle-west floods ia…

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£100 Million Flood Toll

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 April 1952 · page 5

NEW YORK, Friday (B.U.P.). -- Damage already done by the middle-west floods is…

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Snow, dust storms on same day and Gales Off Coast

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 April 1952 · page 5

While snow fell in New South Wales yesterday, dust storms swept through the Mallee in Victoria…

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Flood Banks Hold at Omaha Missouri Still Rising From Our Staff Correspondent And A.A.P.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 April 1952 · page 3

NEW YORK, April 18.—The weakened flood banks along: the Missouri at Omaha, Nebraska, are still holding to-day…

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150,000 Without Homes In Flood

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 April 1952 · page 1

KANSAS CITY, Sat. (A.P.). -- The raging Missouri River yesterday burst its banks on…

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150,000 Without Homes In Flood

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 April 1952 · page 1

KANSAS CITY, Sat. (A.P.). -- The raging Missouri River yesterday burst its banks on…

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150,000 Homeless in Floods

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 April 1952 · page 1

KANSAS CITY, Sat. (A.P.) -- The raging Missouri River yesterday burst its banks on both sides from the Iowa border to Leavenworth (Kansas)…

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150,000 Without Homes In Flood

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 April 1952 · page 1

KANSAS CITY, Sat. (A.P.). -- The raging River yesterday burst its banks on…

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150,000 Without Homes In Flood

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 April 1952 · page 1

KANSAS CITY, Sat. (A.P.). -- The raging Missouri River yesterday burst its banks on…

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150,000 Without Homes In Flood

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 April 1952 · page 1

KANSAS CITY, Sat. (A.P.). -- The raging Missouri River yesterday burst its banks on…

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150,000 Without Homes in Flood

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 April 1952 · page 1

KANSAS CITY, Sat. (A.P.). -- The raging Missouri River yesterday burst its banks on…

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150,000 Without Homes In Flood

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 April 1952 · page 3

KANSAS CITY, Sat. (A.P.). -- The raging Missouri River yesterday burst its banks on…

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River drag, gale delay boatraces

The Sun · Sunday 20 April 1952 · page 22

GPS Regatta starter Ossie Rose[?]ear, had an anxious time at Penrith yesterday…

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Three-inch Deluge Closes Airport, Wrecks Gardens Flooding in Some Suburbs

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 April 1952 · page 1

Torrential rain which began in Sydney about 8.30 p.m. yesterday and lasted all night,…

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Three-inch Deluge Closes Airport, Wrecks Gardens Flooding in Some Suburbs

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 April 1952 · page 1

Torrential rain which began in Sydney about 8.30 p.m. yesterday and lasted all night,…

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8 Die: Cyclone Hits Island Off New Guinea

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 April 1952 · page 1

PORT MORESBY, Sun. -- A cyclone has killed of least eight natives and injured many others in the Louisiade archipelago, east of New Guinea. Residents of Misima…

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Roofs Torn Off in Freak Gusts Sydney Hit By 3-Inch Deluge

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 April 1952 · page 5

Violent wind gusts disrupted traffic, tore the roofs from two houses, dislodged a verandah and ripped down overhead telegraph wires at Leichhardt early this afternoon…

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Roofs Torn Off in Freak Gusts Sydney Hit By 3-Inch Deluge

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 April 1952 · page 5

Violent wind gusts disrupted traffic, tore the roofs from two houses, dislodged a verandah and ripped down overhead telegraph wires at Leichhardt early this afternoon…

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Three-inch Deluge Closes Airport, Wrecks Gardens Roofs Go in Freak City 'Blow

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 April 1952 · page 1

Violent wind gusts disrupted traffic, tore the roofs from two houses, dislodged a verandah and ripped down overhead telegraph wires af Leichhardt early this afternoon…

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Three-inch Deluge Closes Airport, Wrecks Gardens Roofs Go in Freak City 'Blow'

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 April 1952 · page 1

Violent wind gusts disrupted traffic, tore the roofs from two houses, dislodged a verandah and ripped down overhead telegraph wires at Leichhardt early this afternoon…

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