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... became a politician , dying in his early thirties . Alfred Hales won fame as British correspondent in the Boer War and as author of over sixty books , many of them best sellers in the United States , many of them capturing the raucous ...
... became a politician , dying in his early thirties . Alfred Hales won fame as British correspondent in the Boer War and as author of over sixty books , many of them best sellers in the United States , many of them capturing the raucous ...
Page 304
... became weak and their memory of 1892 became sour . Above all , they had lost the miners ' traditional hope of rising from the ruck . The mines did nothing to restore amity , the unions did nothing . The discord festered , but so long as ...
... became weak and their memory of 1892 became sour . Above all , they had lost the miners ' traditional hope of rising from the ruck . The mines did nothing to restore amity , the unions did nothing . The discord festered , but so long as ...
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... became chairman just before the Australian uranium boom of 1953-4 when Mount Isa clicked with geiger counters , and landrovers radiated out the dusty roads with geologists , and all the hills were believed to be luminous at night with ...
... became chairman just before the Australian uranium boom of 1953-4 when Mount Isa clicked with geiger counters , and landrovers radiated out the dusty roads with geologists , and all the hills were believed to be luminous at night with ...
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The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining Geoffrey Blainey No preview available - 2021 |
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