Word: poole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Canada. The Canadian Wheat Pool operates by borrowing up to 85% of the value of the wheat it handles, usually liquidating in the fall. This year it has tremendous quantities of wheat in storage. When the Canadian Government recently started to investigate mining and oil stock brokers, wheat was dumped on the market by firms trying to get in shape. This started a price recession that further endangered the Pool's margin, and the Prairie Provinces pledged their entire resources to support the wheat market. The Pool's operators went to London to try to sell Great Britain...
Albert Schwartz, Northwestern University's swimming ace recently lowered his own mark for the 100 yard free style in 60 foot pools to 51 5-10 seconds . . . George Kojac of Rutgers did almost as good in a 75 foot pool several days before that . . . These two meet in the new Harvard pool in the N. C. S. A., meet next month and the winner of their race ought to break the record. . . . Jonas ingraham, brother of "Navy Bill" Ingraham, and athletic director at Annapolis has resigned . . . Since he was the central figure in the Army-Navy break rumors along newspaper...
...semi-finals Strachan defeated J. L. Pool '28 former Crimson squash captain in a hard-fought match, 15-12, 15-7, 9-15, 9-15, 15-8. Rawline advanced to the final round with a victory over Sulliyan...
...When Mr. Bingham reached Los Angeles an unsigned letter in hand-writing was delivered at his hotel room. The note merely stated that if he wished to get in touch with Mickey Riley (the noted Olympic diver whom Alumnus Aquaticus wished to have present at the dedication of the pool) he would be able to do so. Riley accepted the invitation as he will appear in Chicago at the N. A. A. U. championships the week after the Cambridge meet. But Mr. Bingham is now more bewildered than ever, for he doesn't know whether Alumnus Aquaticus is an easterner...
...many another famed vacationist. Citizen Calvin Coolidge was gently relaxing from his literary labors at Mount Dora where he and Mrs. Coolidge were the guests of Capt. Archie Hurlburt. Mr. Coolidge had gone fishing only once in a month, had made no use of Capt. Hurlburt's outdoor swimming pool...