Bidding and play analysis in today hand’s contract
Before the lesson on today’s hand, the presenter discusses a key bid and its purpose. North avoids a redouble after West doubles one heart to hinder East access and signal strength in hearts. South doubles four spades, then declarer must plan to break North South communication by leading the king of hearts from dummy to discard. South’s eventual diamond leads and trumps allow East West to make four spades, illustrating the impact of bidding on play.
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Czechs Thank Stalin For Plant Festival Births Oil Gift
Prague reports a state sponsored festival at the Big Stalin synthetic petroleum plant in Bohemia. A beauty queen with hammer and sickle presided as the fourth anniversary of the plant’s transfer from Germany was marked. The event honors a wartime asset given by Stalin as a gift, while the plant struggles financially and remains costly to maintain. Meanwhile Singapore reports a tuberculosis crisis described as the city’s highest rate globally, with 16 percent incidence among ages 12 to 18.
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U S Auto Producers Edge in Exports to Britain
US auto makers shrugged at Britain's 1948 lead in world car exports 226911 to 217911 citing strong domestic demand. Ford and GM export figures show Britain’s rise aided by export laws while AMA warns UK sales to US and Canada decline amid dollar controls and currency shortages.
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Russia Plans More Textbooks for 1949
Moscow reports about 9 million textbooks will be published in the USSR in 1949, four million more than the previous year. Many texts are revised to criticize bourgeois theories and to emphasize the role of Russian and Soviet scientists in world science and technics, with more on production innovators.
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Australia bans Finnish houses from Sweden import trial
Four ready cut timber houses from Sweden and Finland face sale at loss. Landed costs were 3326 dollars for two bedroom and 3472 dollars for three bedroom types. Total price including erection reached 8446 to 10980 dollars. Highest bids were 3876 and 4199 dollars, but houses not sold. Imported by East Asiatic Co Australia Limited as a trial. Similar Sydney brick houses cost about 6460 dollars. Navy contracts: 69 percent now awarded to firms with under 500 employees.
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Many Cities To Get In Lieu Of Tax Payments
North Carolina and about 230 US cities will receive retroactive in lieu of tax payments from public housing authorities. The American Municipal Association cites over a million and a quarter dollars total as federal relief for tax-exempt housing projects and similar property.
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