Word: poole
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Alabama: rebuilding storm sewers in Montgomery; malaria control in Mobile; cleaning the Cahaba River in Bibb County; steel bridge over Copeland Creek in Madison; double treatment asphalt street paving in Greenville; improving cemetery drives in Gadsden; a reform school in Mt. Meigs; a swimming pool in Columbiana...
When the august managers of the Canadian wheat pool take snuff, the whole world sneezes. Last week in seven major markets on three continents grain traders were confounded by the most extraordinary piece of news about the Dominion pool since it was started in 1924. The moment the news was known a dark storm of selling broke over the Chicago, Minneapolis and Kansas City markets, tumbling prices the limit of 5¢ in one day. In Liverpool, Rotterdam, Buenos Aires and Winnipeg, wheat also went down in confusion. Other commodities, notably corn and rye, slid off sharply. The news: After weathering...
...Pool Unplugged, Like Herbert Hoover's hapless Federal Farm Board, the Dominion Pool was created to solve a problem that looked simple, on paper. Since Canada produces about 400,000,000 bu. of wheat annually and consumes only 110,000,000 bu., all the pool had to do was to buy surplus wheat from Dominion farmers and, after a little good-humored waiting, sell it abroad at its own price. Trouble was that Canada does not control the wheat export market single handed. While the pool sat on its wheat waiting for the right price, European bread-eaters bought their...
Today in New York City (pop. 6,930,000) live 1,222,331 men, women & children on public bounty, half of which comes from the Federal Government. Of the four-billion-dollar Federal work relief fund, this greatest single pool of public destitution in the history of the U. S. will get about $220,000,000, just over 5%. To see that the jobless get it with minimum inefficiency is Soldier Johnson's job. Responsible only to Administrator Hopkins, he will work four days a week, receive no salary, draw $25 a day for expenses...
Forty years ago in New Orleans, the late, great Sarah Bernhardt, with Theodore Owen as guide, went alligator hunting in nearby swamps where she picked up a 6-in. baby, called him Aleck, presented him to Owen. Owen built an alligator pool in his garden, house-broke Aleck, cherished him ever after. Last week Owen was dead and most of New Orleans had forgotten Sarah Bernhardt, when Aleck, grown ten feet long and weighing 300 pounds, was auctioned...