Word: poole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brazilians not to dance any more because I didn't want any fuss. They left off dancing." ¶ Among the Mayor's shipmates were Negress singer Florence Mills, conductor Walter Damrosch, cartoonist Rube Goldberg, conductor Sergi Koussevitzky. The Mayor was auctioneer for the ship's pool, won a bet on fighter Tunney, etc. ¶ In Manhattan, Mayor Walker's subordinates waited for a glimpse of the unprecedented "service" he last fortnight promised to give his city when he should return...
This library its pool and card rooms its fairly attractive furnishings give the Union the facilities to be what it calls itself--a club, rather than a mere allunct of the H. A. A., or a housing for mass meetings. Intelligent direction of the governing board may very possibly make it mean more to a great part of its members than an extra ten dollars on the term bill. Good speakers might aid in bringing them there...
Last week Thomas N. McCarter* of the Public Service Electric and Gas Co. of New Jersey, announced the formation of a gigantic merger which will unite his company to the Philadelphia Electric Company and the Pennsylvania and Light Company. Perhaps the world's largest power pool, this combination will control three transmission lines, totaling 208 miles, costing $26,000,000. In 1930, new apparatus complete, the merged companies will begin to function...
...jungle. To add to her difficulties, the thin-lipped Nordic already has a wife, who refuses a divorce. The artless child overcomes all these obstacles, in spite of the fact that until the last reel, she wears no Parisian gowns but appears only on horseback, in the jungle swimming pool, in a hula custume, or (when her dog scampers into the Englishman's room and she gives chase) in a kimono. Divorce is forthcoming when the wife is tricked into believing her husband penniless. All this receives, and certainly needs, enormous "IT", for the scenario is sick unto death...
...Interior asked the Association's mineral law section to urge the next Congress to legislate to conserve U. S. petroleum and gas resources, now being wasted through too much competition. Henry L. Doherty seconded Mr. Work, offering a brief for Federal adoption or promotion of the pool plan of conservation introduced last spring in the Seminole, Okla., field (TIME, May 23). James A. Veasey, counsel for the Carter Oil Co. at Tulsa, Okla., submitted that, though the industry is now overproduced and demoralized, it can right itself; Federal control would be unconstitutional...