Word: poole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first sport to be commented upon is swimming, which enjoys the facilities of one of the fastest pools in the country. Everybody who comes to Harvard tries out the pool once. If you can swim, just up the pool and back, you don't have to go near the place again, but if you can't you'll have to learn...
...flag. He summoned police, who stopped the bearer, a white woman called Fair Angel, directed her to take the flag back to the boat. Later, on the premises of the "Promised Land" where Father Divine was watching a few of his followers swim in a pool whose outhouses were marked for SISTERS and BROTHERS, the police .asked for the flag, got only the little cultist's soft reply: "I am bringing peace to everyone, even if they don't want...
Splash! Yusa, Arai, Taguchi, Fick & Csik were in the pool. The wary Japanese watched Fick. Wary Fick watched the Japanese. Skinny Csik watched no one, kept on swimming. When the race was over, Fick and the Japanese stopped looking at each other, looked at Csik. He was the winner. Said Swimmer Fick to Swimmer Csik: "It's good I got third, at least." He was wrong again. In the confusion at the finish, judges had, perhaps erroneously, placed Fick sixth, behind not only Yusa, Arai and Taguchi but even German Helmuth Fischer...
...idea of forming pools to buy up surplus gasoline reached oilmen from Washington in 1933 when East Texas skimming plants were playing hob with the market. First pool buying was done in 1934 under the direct supervision of Secretary of the Interior Ickes acting as administrator of the petroleum industry. That year he said: "I feel that this plan is a real move toward stabilization of the oil industry." The program, however, did little good, largely because the East Texas refiners and some major companies could not be persuaded to join the pool. Month after his announcement, Secretary .Ickes made...
...About half of this carry-over is controlled by the Government. But the Government did get out of the futures market last week for the first time since 1929, when Herbert Hoover's Farm Board first plunged headlong into the private cotton business. Reports were that the Cotton Pool cleared its books by selling a 25,000-bale futures contract to Speculator Jesse Livermore who is currently making one of his perennial comebacks...