The Archive · 1939

So Spoke The Volcano

SIS Australian Letter ow, was 0 More Australian Aircraft they travel half-fare Mass Production Plan Adopted; Indian Ocean Pioneer Flight; Mobile Standing Army Melbourne, Apr. 1.

YARS and rumours of war in other parts of the world have brought a sense of insecurity to the Australian people. They have also provided an extraordinary stimulus to development, specially in the field of communications and industrial expansion. New industries are being established surprisingly quickly.

Existing industries are increasing their productive capacity with comparable rapidity, and the development of subsidiaries is tendering them independent in the matter of essential materials Or equipment which have previously had to be imported.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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