Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daring selections came to the test. In the morning round, Nelson & Dudley, trailing at the 16th, rallied to clear the bunker for a birdie 4. They returned to Grumley's in the afternoon 3 up. Golfer Cotton's ball hit the bunker squarely, dropped back into the trap. Nelson & Dudley soared over, birdied again, and won the opening match...
...defeated by Cotton and Nelson lost to little David Rees. By this time defense of the Ryder Cup fell to Gene Sarazen and again Crumley's proved the crucial point. Coming to the 34th hole 1 up on Percy Alliss, Sarazen proceeded to drive into the deep trap. As Captain Hagen excitedly chewed a cigaret on the sideline, Sarazen heroically lifted his ball safely over the bunker to the green, halved the hole. He halved the next one, too, then drove calmly between the dunes, pitched to the green, holed out in 4 to equal Alliss and clinch...
...Admiral Graf Spee which arrived from Germany to replace the recently bombed Deutschland. London rumors had high naval officers in Berlin protesting to Der Führer that in sending his best ships into Mediterranean waters dominated by France and Britain he was risking that they might be "trapped." If there were such protests, Adolf Hitler ignored them, relying upon heavy concentrations of Italian warships off the Balearics and Eastern Spain to wreck any trap which French naval concentrations at more distant Toulon and Bone might conceivably try to spring...
...face-saver for the Prime Minister, Britain's stiff new tax has the same name as the shelved tax trap: The National Defense Contribution. Irrespective of whether a firm's profits are increasing so fast as to suggest "profiteering" or not, Simple Simon's tax is to bear with equal weight on virtually all British firms with annual net profits of more than $10,000 per year. It is a supertax. Its intent is to raise the existing average 25% income tax on British firms to 29% in the case of partnerships, 30% in the case...
...Thirteen (Mosfilm) relates a day's experience of ten Soviet soldiers, their commander, his wife and an old geologist on their homeward journey across the Siberian Desert. Coming by chance upon a spring frequented by a band of marauding Baschmachi tribesmen, the commander (Ivan Novoseltsev) decides to trap the bandits when they shortly arrive for water. One by one the defenders drop before overwhelming hordes until by the time help comes only Private Akchurin (Ilya Kuznetsov) remains...