Word: outback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most Australians, "humpty doo" means "all right, everything is O.K." But to the hardy residents of tiny Humpty Doo in Australia's Northern Territory, the term is a wry joke. Humpty Doo lies in a waste of desert and jungle twice the size of Texas-the territorial "Outback" below Darwin. It is a land of crocodiles and kangaroos, of torrential, 60-in. rain fall half the year and bone-dry drought the rest. Last week Humpty Doo held promise of living up to its name. After three years of study, a group of U.S. businessmen headed by Los Angeles...
Dams & Markets. Chase and Territory Rice signed a 30-year deal with the Australian government to develop 500,000 acres of the Outback's alluvial plains into a settled and prosperous farming area. Within five years, the company must choose its acreage, within another ten years prepare the land, build a complex of dams, irrigation ditches, etc., and bring in the first crops. After that, it must sell the developed land to settlers, who will farm it while Territory Rice acts as agent for the rice crop, mills and ships it to markets. With only a token...
...flat broke when he got to Australia, and the longest leg, 1,200 miles across the Tasman Sea, was still ahead. Once more Major Hayter went to work. He put in two varied years laboring as a longshoreman, crawfishing, even drew pay as a hired hand on an outback farm before his bank balance was equal to re-equipping Sheila111. In mid-March he stood south again until he hit the Roaring Forties, off the southwest tip of the continent. There he simply "put in three reefs and set course east...
Paved highway took the contestant across the Northern Territory on the long (1,051 miles) run to Darwin. South and west across the "Outback" to the coast, the road was a nightmare of anthills and black "bulldust." Angry stockmen, who declared that the cars were frightening cattle, locked their gates and forced the travelers to detour. Indignant aborigines brandished tomahawks at the noisy invaders. Bush flies descended in swarms on bone-tired drivers taking catnaps. And in the tiny pearl-fishing town of Broome, the car crews found hardly enough food and beer to go around. By then, 88 entrants...