Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hershey, Pa. three weeks ago, U. S. Open Golf Champion Byron Nelson shot a 287 in the Hershey Open, collected $450 fourth-place money. A $450 check for four days on the golf links is no cause for a sneeze-even by a national champion. But Golfer Nelson was not pleased. And with good reason: his caddy's failure to. find a tee shot that had plopped into the rough in the final round had cost him two strokes, thereby done him out of the second-place prize...
...Poloists Pete Bostwick, Bobby Gerry, Ebby Gerry and Eric Tyrrell-Martin of England (entered as Bostwick Field): the U. S. Open Polo Championship; defeating Jock Whitney's Greentree team (Peter Grace, Bob Skene of Australia, Tommy Hitchcock and Jock Whitney) in the final, 8-to-7; at Long Island's Meadow Brook Club...
...show at the New York and San Francisco World Fairs. But, says Eddie Millman: "In murals alone can art reach the large masses of people. . . . Easel paintings are too personal, too limited in appeal. . . . Painting, to be really functional, must be taken from small exclusive groups and thrown open to everyone...
...Other steel bottlenecks: Continuous mills roll semi-finished steel into sheet and strip much faster than open hearth furnaces now operating feed them with ingots. Nor can the blast furnaces now in operation keep up with the open hearths. Steel making at Youngstown, Ohio dropped two points (to 80%) this week because of a shortage of iron. At Buffalo last week Bethlehem Steel blew in its old No. 2 blast furnace. One blast furnace, last relined in 1919, was put in service. Rush orders for refractory brick to reline steel and iron furnaces made Pittsburgh's Harbison-Walker Refractories...
Entries to the fall golf and tennis tournaments are now open and a touch football team is being organized to play against House teams...