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At the time, I was still keen on boxing. I was the middleweight representative of the mine, and the two Jims, my mining pair, Devlin and Hallinan, were my …
Apart from the riblets of the leading edges and trailing edges, there were ten ribs for each of the four wings. Each of these was made of twenty-one pieces …
After starting off across the Tasman by aeroplane with such a flourish, the idea of creeping in to Sydney in a miserable steamer was humiliating. I felt that I …
I set to work and made up a list of the material and replacements I should need. This made fourteen pages. Then began a strange, but strangely happy period …
‘Hang on, Roley! I shouted. ‘Hang on!’, and one of us on each side of the engine, feet jammed against a niche in the concrete at the edge of …
There were one or two tough characters in the pit, among them an ex-docker from Sydney Harbour, a lean long-legged Communist, who was annoyed one day because a deputy …
Leaving New York, I headed south-east to sail along the 39th parallel to the Azores. Ninety miles from land we passed close to Texas Tower Number 4, a fantastic-looking …
I stepped straight from forty days alone at sea into a high-powered businessman’s life, with hundreds of letters and telegrams to answer, newspaper and radio interviews, and one or …