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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1953

1,663 stories in Sydney's papers · page 64 of 84

The storm over Kinsey

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 1 September 1953 · page 2

Publication of extracts from American sex scientist Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's new book Sexual Behavior in the Human Female has caused a lively controversy. No other book has…

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flood repair

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 September 1953 · page 13

AMSTERDAM (D.M.W.C.). --Six months after the February floods Holland was still spending…

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Dutch hasten flood repair

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 September 1953 · page 15

AMSTERDAM (D.M.W.C.). --Six months after the February floods Holland was still spending…

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Dutch hasten floodrepair

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 September 1953 · page 15

AMSTERDAM (D.M.W.C.). --Six months after the February floods Holland was still spending…

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West Berliners Flood East Seeking Us Food From Walter Holmes, London Daily Worker

Tribune · Wednesday 2 September 1953 · page 4

BERLIN.—Democratic Berlin has again been the target of the West, but this time no windows were broken or shops plundered and burned. THIS time, thousands of West…

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Gales end warm spell

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 September 1953 · page 12

The Weather Bureau reported gusts of up to 50 miles an hour in Sydney yesterday…

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Twelve Floods In Year Hit Lucerne

The Land · Friday 4 September 1953 · page 20

MR. Q. SHEPHERD, of Barooma, Narromine, winner of the Narromine competition, has much young lucerne on his holding, which fronts the Macquarie River,…

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Floods Ruined Cauliflower Land

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 September 1953 · page 23

BATHURST: Disastrous floods several seasons back sounded the deathkneil for Perthville as a great…

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America may have water famine in next 50 years Expert warns that destruction of forests and unchecked floods are depleting natural underground reservoirs

The World's News · Saturday 5 September 1953 · page 35

THE 150-million people in the United States may run seriously short of water in the next half-century…

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20,000 flood victims

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 September 1953 · page 2

MEXICO CITY, Sat. (B.U.P.).--Floods in the central Mexican State of Guanajuato yesterday…

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20,000 flood victims

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 September 1953 · page 2

MEXICO CITY, Sat. (B.U.P.).--Floods in the central Mexican State of Guanajuato yesterday…

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20,000 flood victims

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 September 1953 · page 2

MEXICO CITY, Sat. (B.U.P.).--Floods in the central Mexican State of Guanajuato yesterday…

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20,000 flood victims

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 September 1953 · page 2

MEXICO CITY, Sat. (B.U.P.).--Floods in the central Mexican State of Guanajuato yesterday…

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20,000 flood victims

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 September 1953 · page 2

MEXICO CITY, Sat. (B.U.P.).--Floods in the central Mexican State of Guanajuato yesterday…

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20,000 flood victims

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 September 1953 · page 2

MEXICO CITY, Sat. (B.U.P.).--Floods in the central Mexican State of Guanajuato yesterday…

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20,000 flood victims

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 September 1953 · page 2

MEXICO CITY, Sat. (B.U.P.).--Floods in the central Mexican State of Guanajuato yesterday…

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20,000 flood victims

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 September 1953 · page 2

MEXICO CITY, Sat. (B.U.P.).--Floods in the central Mexican State of Guanajuato yesterday…

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Storm likely over ABC play (Stories of Sydney Vice)

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 6 September 1953 · page 7

The Australian Broadcasting Commission soon will broadcast a startling true-life story of juvenile delinquency in Sydney. Radio men say the…

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Refuse at Rose Bay Storm Drains Blamed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 September 1953 · page 1

The Maritime Services Board was not prepared to accept responsibility for harbour pollution, Captain…

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Storm Waters. a Short Story Joss Williams sensed an impending danger. Something even bigger than the floods

The World's News · Saturday 12 September 1953 · page 26

THE two men sat slumped in their saddles helplessly watching the frothy water surging across the paddock. An hour before, it had lapped…

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