Word: queensland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...isolated camp in northern Queensland, Australia, Geologist J. G. Hathaway probably qualifies as TIME'S most thorough reader. He writes : "I read every flamin' word: news, ads, picture credits, even the masthead (I see Marshall Smith got a promotion). I even count the type faces used...
There are other strange beasts in the sea, says Ley, that zoologists do not recognize. For example, there is a turtle-like creature, much bigger than known sea turtles, called a niuhi in Easter Island and a moha-moha in Queensland. It may range all over. Last winter, says Ley, a large unknown animal tried to climb a sea wall in Florida, leaving great moha-moha like tracks in the sand...
First came Q fever (so called because it was identified in Queensland, Australia, in 1935), a distant and comparatively harmless relative of typhus. Its victims, usually stockyard or dairy workers, develop flu-like symptoms. By week's end 116 cases had been reported...
Doubles-Fielder Wally Northcott, wanting to cut his son Kefford in on this easy money, entered his name on the bookmakers' waiting list of the Queensland Turf Club. Informed that there were already 120 names on the list (and only three new bookies added each year), Wally Northcott said his son could stand to wait since he was only two days old. "My son," he explained, "was born June 21st, the shortest day of the year. I figured he would be naturally lazy, so the only thing to do was to make him a bookmaker...
...Australian Labor Leader T. Dougherty told a Sydney conference that the richest uranium deposits in the world have been found in southeastern Queensland...