Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...export of beef is Argentina's largest industry. Under the contract, the United Nations agreed to take 1,500,000 tons of meat, 6,000,000 Argentine steers. So the loss of the contract would hurt. But in Britain. Argentina's biggest customer, the eating of beef is an old custom. Britain would be willing to go along with U.S. policy, if the U.S. can supply the lost beef. It looked as if U.S. foreign policy would get down to the level of the U.S. stomach...
...contract-bridge experts who are Life Masters,* only five are women. But the double winner of last week, Helen Sobel, who became a Life Master in 1940, is rated the best tournament player...
...woman took two out of five major titles at the 18th annual summer championships of the American Contract Bridge League: in the world championship master teams-of-four, the U.S. mixed teams-of-four...
...supremacy of Helen Sobel. Eleven Life Masters are now in uniform, but the championship sessions at Manhattan's Hotel Astor showed a better quality of play than in prewar years. (It also set four new attendance records-daily average, 100 tables.) The Culbertson system, basis of all contract bidding, has been modified, streamlined and so vastly improved that oldtime experts are hard put to keep up with the latest bidding methods (the opening two-bid, once the strongest forcing call, is now used as a weak bid by most of the experts, because so few hands have enough honor...
...Result: within two years she won her first championship match (U.S. women's pairs); within five years she married Sobel. He soon acknowledged himself worsted, gave up tournament play and turned his attention to revising bridge laws and to his job as executive tournament manager of the American Contract Bridge League. Once a year, handsome, jovial Al Sobel plays with Mrs. Sobel in the New York City married-jouples match, for the Mr. & Mrs. A. M. Sobel trophy. In 1943, out of 40 teams, the donors finished seventh...