Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centre court at Roland Garros was entirely rebuilt this year, with a red clay surface even slower than before. This tended to lessen the celebrated speed of the No. 1 U. S. singles player. Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr. Combined with the fact that the U. S. team had not been impressive in the final round against Germany, it helped give France some of the confidence it had lost when Rene La Coste announced that he was too sick to play. French newspapers generously warned Vines not to eat pork and cucumber the day before he played Henri Cochet...
...flash and sparkle as they had at Wimbledon. Borotra won the first game on his own. serve. The match stopped while policemen interrupted a fight in the grandstand. Vines won three games. Borotra won them back. Serving at 4-5, Vines slammed his cannonball into the court but the clay made it bounce slowly. At match point, he netted a drive and ran up to the net to shake Borotra's hand just ahead of the crowd that was pouring down from the grandstand to thump Borotra's back...
...There are no good turf courts in France. The courts at Roland Garros Stadium, designed by Charles Bouhana, are of red clay much like En-Tout-Cas ("all weather") courts which are made in the U. S. and elsewhere by En-Tout-Cas Co. Tennis ball specifications for size, weight, thickness of cover are the same all over the world; but because most European players prefer a slower bounce, Dunlap Co., which makes most tennis balls abroad, uses a rubber composition that gives a less lively bounce than the composition used by U. S. manufacturers. European tennis balls last...
...rolled in Havana, then shipped to Trenton under bond. Factories being moved include Havana Cigar & Tobacco Factories, Ltd., H. de Cabanas y Carbajal and others, all controlled by American Cigar's subsidiary Cuban Tobacco Co. Their brands, on which price reductions are likely, embrace: Corona, Bock, Henry Clay, Carolina, Villar, Manuel Garcia Alonso, La Meridiana...
Another U. S. steel constituent was Union Steel-bought for $25,000,000 from the Mellons, the late Henry Clay Frick and Mr. Donner. Mr. Donner was Union Steel's president. Donora, Pa., which he helped found, is named after him. He also helped found Monessen...