Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brooks Bateman that "nobody's going to see [the books]." Williams became more suspicious when he noticed that the district's "work boat" was actually a cruiser equipped with fishing chairs, outriggers and a sportsman's flying bridge. He also noticed a large highway-owned swimming pool, which had been "built for the benefit of the public" but never opened because officials later found that "state insurance regulations . . . prevented" them from doing...
...Having pooled their lives (they were married in 1945), Eddie and Margo recently decided to pool their talents, last week were wowing audiences at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel with a. fast-moving variety...
Private Snort. The caucus room coverage was smoothly professional. Under pool arrangements, it was ABC's turn to supply equipment and technicians. In a steaming mobile unit parked in the Senate building courtyard, Ed Scherer, a 25-year-old TV director for Baltimore's WMAR-TV, selected the best shots to be fed to the networks. After pedestrian coverage the first morning, the cameramen sharpened, even anticipated Joe McCarthy's points of order. Said one: "When he looks disgusted, we put our camera on him." At one point, McCarthy passed a scribbled note...
...trouble signing up students for draft-exempt R.O.T.C. Seventy colleges have asked for and obtained units. Moreover, some 140 colleges and universities (e.g., Cornell, U.C.L.A., Louisiana State) now require two years of military training; R.O.T.C. courses neatly fill the bill. No longer permitted merely to train and then pool their R.O.T.C. graduates, the services now must assign newly commissioned officers to active duty. To attract career men and train reservists, each service has added considerable brass to the campus...
During the war, however, Raver saw the value of coordinating public and private projects into an integrated network, and created the Northwest Power Pool. The public-private combination of plants and dams produces 600,000 more kilowatts than the facilities would produce if operated separately. Raver's group, like Robinson's, will ask the Federal Government to pay some of its costs. It plans facilities for 1,600,000 kw. in the next ten years, is starting field studies for possible dams in such areas as the Columbia River Basin...