Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill concerns a Northwest nightmare: a burning need for more and more power at cheap rates. The New Deal spent millions for dams on the Columbia River, made Northwesterners the nation's biggest consumers of hydroelectric power. But the huge Northwest power pool, 58% generated by the Government, brought so much new industry and population that today the Northwest may have a serious power shortage by 1960. Although new dams are badly needed, Congress is now reluctant to grant the whopping sums they would cost...
...Nehru's ministers. The Second Five-Year Plan is under a heavy barrage of fire. Mahalanobis, critics found, had underestimated the cost of needed new railroad mileage by a whopping $1.4 billion. Industries Minister Krishnamachari, bemoaning the dearth of skills in India's vast untrained manpower pool, despaired of attaining the plan's steel production goals. "Finding personnel for the new steel plants," he said, "looks like a superhuman task...
...greatest. This method would not work for all lower-level Humanities and Social Sciences courses--some meet chiefly in section and therefore need specialized instructors--but there is no reason why its use cannot be expanded. Social Sciences 4, for example, could probably get in on the section man pool, and Humanities 2, 4, and 5 might very well establish one of their...
...compiled a mediocre record as a 440-man and an excellent reputation for telling coaches and team members exactly how things should be run. When he acted even more strongly on this reputation upon his return to College as a sophomore, he was requested to betake himself from the pool and never return...
Although Grover was married during his first three years at College, he squired young ladies other than his wife around the I.A.B. pool; his first divorce enabled him to spend his senior year in Lowell House...