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Situation caused by employer absorbing withholding tax discussed; Internal Revenue Tax Collector Higgins reveals workers will be liable to Treas Dept at yr end; problem studied by Treas Dept
CLEVELAND, July 31 -- Gunder Haegg of Sweden outdistanced three American rivals tonight to win a speedy one-mile run on the Baldwin-Wallace College track in 4 minutes 5.4 seconds, a tenth slower than his United States best of 4:05.3.
EAST WILLISTON, L.I., July 31 -- Dr. Charles J. Robinson and his guest, Wesley M. Cotterell of the near-by Cherry Valley Club, last year's winner of the Casey memorial tournament, annual member-guest fixture at the Wheatley Hills Golf Club, had to rally to forestall defeat in the opening match-play round of that tournament today.
LONDON, July 31 -- Civil defence workers have fashioned a small but complete sports stadium out of the bombed area behind St. Paul's Cathedral. This afternoon it was the setting for what may easily have been the first garden party within the precincts of the ancient City of London since the fourteenth century.
1943Lydia Litvyak, Soviet lieutenant and pilot (born 1921)[†]
Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak, also known as Lilya, was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II. Historians' estimates for her total victories range from thirteen to fourteen solo victories and four to five shared kills in her 66 combat sorties. In about two years of operations, she was the first female fighter pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft, the first of two female fighter pilots who have earned the title of fighter ace and the holder of the record for the greatest number of kills by a female fighter pilot. She was shot down near Orel during the Battle of Kursk as she attacked a formation of German aircraft.
1943World War II: Operation Tidal Wave, also known as "Black Sunday", was a failed American attempt to destroy Romanian oil fields.[†]
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.