Interview with Dulcie Barnier Dreyspring, Australian-born immigrant to Fort Worth, Texas, for the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. The interview includes Dreyspring's personal experiences of childhood in Australia, interactions with American soldiers during World War II, the Japanese invasion of Australia, her first visit to the U.S., first impressions of America, her first marriage to an American, and her return to Australia for the immigration process. It also includes her impressions of various American cities, views on American identity, her siblings in Australia, reasons for moving to Fort Worth, her second marriage to an American airman, adopting Texas culture, and advice for future immigrants.

This report discusses the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), a free trade agreement that includes nations on both sides of the Pacific. Original members of the TPP were Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, and Singapore. The United States, Australia, Peru, and Vietnam have committed themselves to joining and expanding this group. This report discusses similar trade partnerships, the importance of Asia to U.S. trade and security interests, and U.S. participation in the TPP.

This report briefly discusses nuclear relations and cooperation between the United States and Australia, including the Atomic Energy Act and President Obama's latest renewal agreement of said Act.

This report describes a treaty signed by the United States and Australia on Defense Trade Cooperation in September 2007 that would facilitate defense trade and cooperation between the two nations. On the strategic level, the treaty would further develop ties between two very close allies who have fought together in most of America's conflicts, including most recently in Iraq and in Afghanistan.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Alan Fouts. Fouts joined the Navy in 1939 and trained in San Diego. Upon completion of basic training, Fouts joined the USS Argonne (AG-31). Later, he was stationed at the submarine base at Pearl Harbor when the war started. He recalls witnessing the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. He managed to get guns operational on the USS Widgeon (AM-22) before it got underway during the attack. Between the attacks, Fouts went alongside the USS Arizona (BB-39) and measured the holes in the hull. He continued serving as a diver at Noumea and Samoa in 1942-1943. He volunteered for submarine duty and was made five war patrols aboard the USS Pogy (SS- 266). Fouts tells several submarine stories. After the war, Fouts remained in the Navy for thirty years.

The purpose of the study is to empirically determine the relevance of PPP theory under the traditional arbitrage and the efficient markets (EPPP) frameworks during the recent floating period of the 1980s. Monthly data was collected for fifteen industrial nations from January 1980 to December 1986. The models tested included the short-run PPP, the long-run PPP, the EPPP, the EPPP with deviations from expectations, the forward rates as unbiased estimators of future spot rates, the EPPP and the forward rates, and the EPPP with forward rates and lagged values. A generalized regression method called Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) was employed to test the models. The results support the efficient markets approach to PPP but fail to support the traditional PPP in both the short term and the long term. Moreover, the forward rates are poor and biased predictors of the future spot rates. The random walk hypothesis is generally supported.

Newspaper clipping describing how a Denton-area Boy Scout troop will participate in the 1987 XVI World Jamboree in Australia, with some background about the troop and the history of the event. There is a column on the back of the clipping with a series of historical and trivia facts.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Telegram sent by H. Kempner to their business partners wishing them seasons greetings.

Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Telegram sent by H. Kempner to their business partners wishing them seasons greetings.

Telegram sent by H. Kempner to their business partners wishing them seasons greetings.

Telegram sent by H. Kempner to their business partners wishing them seasons greetings.

Telegram sent by H. Kempner to their business partners wishing them seasons greetings.

This booklet is the second chapter of Current Study 11, a staff development course about the Cold War's impact on world affairs. This chapter discusses the development of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) and includes background information, observations, review questions, a list of readings for further study, and three appendices.

Photograph of sea cliffs in Tasman Peninsula, Australia. Centered in the photo is the cliffside opening to the ocean. Rocky cliffs frame the sides, and large rocks frame the bottom. Waves are crashing into the rocks and cliffs.

Photograph of sea cliffs in Tasman Peninsula, Australia. Centered in the photo is the cliffside opening to the ocean. Rocky cliffs frame the sides, and large rocks frame the bottom. Waves are crashing into the rocks and cliffs.

Photograph of sea cliffs in Tasman Peninsula, Australia. Centered in the photo is the cliffside opening to the ocean. Rocky cliffs frame the sides, and large rocks frame the bottom. Waves are crashing into the rocks and cliffs.

Photograph of sea cliffs in Tasman Peninsula, Australia. Centered in the photo is the cliffside opening to the ocean. Rocky cliffs frame the sides, and large rocks frame the bottom. Waves are crashing into the rocks and cliffs.

Photograph of sea cliffs in Tasman Peninsula, Australia. Centered in the photo is the cliffside opening to the ocean. Rocky cliffs frame the sides, and large rocks frame the bottom. Waves are crashing into the rocks and cliffs.

Photograph of sea cliffs in Tasman Peninsula, Australia. Centered in the photo is the cliffside opening to the ocean. Rocky cliffs frame the sides, and large rocks frame the bottom. Waves are crashing into the rocks and cliffs.

Photograph of sea cliffs in Tasman Peninsula, Australia. Centered in the photo is the cliffside opening to the ocean. Rocky cliffs frame the sides, and large rocks frame the bottom. Waves are crashing into the rocks and cliffs.

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