Word: hollande
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money of the U.S. golf circuit. Last year, after whipping the best of the competition at home, he packed his bags, set out for Britain, where he was runner-up to Bobby Locke in the British Open, went on to win the open championships of Belgium, Holland and France. Last week, in his third crack at the U.S. circuit, Golfer de Vicenzo gave 15 other top pros a few lessons in how the game should be played...
Price Gouging. This was not all the fault of the U.S.; many a producer used the shortages to do some price gouging. The most conspicuous example is tin, controlled by a cartel run by tin men of Great Britain, Belgium, Holland and Bolivia. After Korea, tin jumped from 78¾? a lb. to $1.82, forcing the RFC to step in and do all the buying for the U.S. Said RFC Administrator W. Stuart Symington: "They murdered us on prices." To stop the slaughter, RFC went on a buyers' strike in March, and tin settled to about $1.50. Two weeks...
...white mish flag, 40-year-old Lee Wallard, down to his last dollar four years ago, had won auto racing's biggest jackpot: $63,612 ($15,900 of it for leading in 159 of the 200 laps). His average speed: 126.244 m.p.h., nearly 5 m.p.h. faster than Bill Holland's 1949 record...
...Axis world combined, is now a poor seventh, just ahead of Germany. So Lloyd's Register of Shipping reported last week, after totting up shipbuilding in 1951's first quarter. The leader: Britain, with 2,072,723 tons under construction. Other top builders: France, Japan, Italy, Sweden, Holland. The U.S., in third place last year, now has only 270,284 tons of shipping under construction...
...isolationists in his own party, protested: "It is no time for a group of serious and responsible men such as we are to be talking about a long ten-day Easter vacation." Wherry piously retorted: no one is talking about a vacation. But, as Florida's Democrat Spessard Holland pointed out, the only members who needed to be in the chamber were those who were going to make speeches on the subject before the Senate. Nobody expected any new ideas from them, nobody expected any votes to be changed. So off home for an undeclared holiday went about...