Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dramatic Club has been negotiating through the dean's office for a studio in the University ever since the group was forced to vacate its facilities in the Big Tree Swimming Pool this summer because of fire laws. Although Bryant said that he "was not yet certain whether space would be available at the bindery," members of the club expressed, optimism about the terms of the announcement...
...Arms Pool for Europe. Mendès visited the sights of Rome with Premier Scelba and donned morning coat and topper to call on Pope Pius XII. He was the first French Premier ever to visit the Pope. It was also the first audience granted by the ailing Pontiff since late November. They talked for 20 minutes, and Mendès presented the Pope with a collection of 17th century sermons. Emerging from the Vatican, Mendès said of its splendors: "Now I understand what grandeur really is." The Italians were delighted...
Mendès hoped to enlist Italian and German support for two of his pet projects: 1) a European Arms Pool, to standardize and control arms production in all Western European Union nations, and 2) talks with the Russians in the spring. Italian and German backing, he thought, might help him get German rearmament through the French Senate later this month...
Mendès' quizzical features, the details of his every meal, blazed from the Rome front pages; his pretty wife was acclaimed as "gentilissima." But when Mendès sat down to talk over his European Arms Pool with Premier Scelba, he was less successful. His plan, he said, would make European arms production cheaper and more efficient by enabling each member of WEU to concentrate on those items it is best fitted to produce (The Netherlands, electronics; Britain, jet engines; Germany, explosives; France, fuselages). The Italians were polite but noncommittal...
...four passenger-cargo ships to be built under the new program will have a radical look. Among the proposals: a freightliner, with all cargo forward, all decks and staterooms aft; a multidecked patio around the swimming pool to give inside staterooms an outside view; a picture-windowed cocktail lounge perched aloft in the streamlined main stack. Each ship will carry at least 100 passengers and have space for 500,000 cu. ft. of cargo, and will be plying American President's round-the-world trade routes...