Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full meaning of the Masters' Invitation Open Tournament held over this rolling, pine-fringed course last week was missed by those sportswriters who harped on "Bobby Jones's return to competition." True, it was his first tournament since 1930, the year of his "grand slam" in the British and U. S. Open and amateur championships. But it was much more than that. It was a chance for the game's greatest idol to show that he has not been inactive on his pedestal. He presented to the game and to all the professionals whose glory...
...close third and Golden Miller, going easily, just behind. The field narrowed in the straightaway and made for the Canal Turn, the horses tiring now and their riders, in bright silks, holding them in for the high thorn hedge and water at Valentine's Brook. Unlike most Grand Nationals, last week's was run on a fair day: most of the crowd saw what happened at the jump-Really True, the favorite, bumped a loose horse and landed in the water. Delaneige came up to the front a mile from home, leading Golden Miller, Forbra and Thomond...
Three years ago a Buffalo, N. Y. autoworker named Clayton Woods bought an Irish Hospital Sweepstakes ticket on Gregalach in the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree. When Gregalach came in second, Clayton Woods was richer by $886,360. Cried he: "I'll buy that horse Gregalach and keep him in a velvet stall."* To most newspaper readers, stories like Clayton Woods's are of lively interest. Nonetheless, it looked for a time as if the U. S. Press might not be allowed to print this most familiar form of human interest feature. After the Derby of 1931, when...
...news when the service stations around Los Angeles year ago started a price war which brought gasoline down to 7½? per gal. As common to the industry as red-handled pumps, the price slashing is still going on. But it was news indeed last week when a Federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted and ordered arrested the top executives in two of the biggest oil companies on the Pacific Coast for aiding and abetting the price war and for violating the Oil Code...
...these subsidiaries, while posing as competitors of their parent companies, conspired to sell Standard and Associated gasoline to the public under a different brand at drastically reduced prices in order to squeeze out independents. Terming this ''the most vicious price cutting war in oil history," the grand jurors carefully fixed $1,000 bail for defendants-after they are arrested. If convicted under the oil code they face $500 fine on each count. Standard's total fine would be $1,600,000, Associated's $2,200,000. In Washington day later it was learned that Oil Administrator...