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pacts defended by Wallace and Asst Sec Grady; attacked by La Follette Vandenberg and others, Sen com hearing
Sen Repubs plan more funds for corp tax audit
Anti-aircraft guns barked last night and were continuing in action early this morning against unidentified planes that were flying over the Netherlands in the vicinity of Amsterdam, as both sides in the Allied-German war seemed to be feeling each other out from the air.
Bronx Telephone Organization warns N Y Telephone Co of strike unless contract demands are met
Non-mil appropriation bill cut and approved by House com
1940Mario Andretti, Italian-American racing driver[†]
Mario Gabriele Andretti is an American former racing driver and businessman, who competed in Formula One from 1968 to 1982, and IndyCar from 1964 to 1994. Andretti won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1978 with Lotus, and won 12 Grands Prix across 14 seasons. In American open-wheel racing, Andretti won four IndyCar National Championship titles and the Indianapolis 500 in 1969; in stock car racing, he won the Daytona 500 in 1967. In endurance racing, Andretti is a three-time winner of the 12 Hours of Sebring.