Word: poole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elect's lameness, short ramps will replace steps at the side door of the executive offices leading to the White House and in the east end of the second-floor hall leading to the Lincoln Study. Also under consideration was the construction of a small warm-water swimming pool in the White House basement, similar to the one Mr. Roosevelt had in the Executive Mansion conservatory at Albany, where he took regular underwater leg exercises between trips to Warm Springs. ¶ In December 1929, President Hoover, v.ith the aid of $500,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation, appointed a Research...
...Girl swimmers in a three-day meet sponsored by Henry L. Doherty's new Florida Year-Round Clubs, at the Miami-Biltmore pool: nine new national records. Record-breakers: minnowy Katherine Rawls of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (300 yd. medley, 300, 400 and 440 yd. breaststroke) ; pretty Lenore Kight of Homestead, Pa. (400 yd. and 500 metre free style) ; muscular Margaret Hoffman of Scranton, Pa. (200 yd., 220 yd. and 200 metre breast stroke, the last two simul-taneously...
President Alessandri of Chile last week decreed the liquidation of Cosach, the Chilean nitrate monopoly. Organized to enable the big producers of natural nitrates to pool their interests in the battle against synthetic nitrates and to give the Government a strong voice in exploitation of Chilean reserves, Cosach has been crippled by Depression. Two representatives of the Government and one of the Guggenheim Brothers will direct the liquidation...
...ended with Caras' dangerous cut-shot for the right-hand upper corner pocket-when, if he had been a little less sure of himself, he might have broken a cluster to put Ponzi out of position instead of trying to run out the game. Son of a Greek pool parlor proprietor, Caras learned to play when he was 7 and so small he had to stand on a soapbox. He uses a 20-oz. cue, opens his mouth ferociously when making a run, takes no exercise for fear of becoming muscle bound, supports nine members of his family...
...Things are worth more in Paris now, and there are more people who want to buy famous French paintings. There can be no question that Paris now is the center of the art world, and the market is decidedly brisk. . . . Our pool so far has only $1,200,000 behind it, but if we are successful we shall get all the capital we need...