Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening about 20 years ago, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, home on vacation from his elegant school in Switzerland, stood in the gardens of the ornate Marble Palace gazing into the waters of a pool. His father, the Shah of Persia, came upon him and demanded: "What are you doing, son?" "Nothing, father, just standing here thinking," answered the boy. The Shah's face clouded, and he roared: "Thinking! God damn it, one day you're going to be Shah and you'll have to act, not think." He booted his son into the water...
Father was a tough ex-cavalryman who became Shah by grabbing power; his son could never quite get over a shamed and hesitant feeling that the monarchy was not his by long tradition. Even after being booted into the pool, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi never learned to be decisive. Ascending the throne in 1941, Mohammed Reza quickly indicated that he preferred affairs of the heart to affairs of state. In his early days, he kept a fast plane, a hot-rod Cadillac and a French mistress; once he made a big and unsuccessful pitch for Rita Hayworth...
...general landlord for all other agencies, Mansure has cracked down on wasteful habits all over Washington. By installing a motor pool, he cut the number of cars used by his own agency from 36 to eight. He also persuaded Small Business Administrator William Mitchell, who rates a $1,400 sedan, to use a $365 secondhand Mercury instead...
...small investors on the installment plan. Under Funston's plan, a small investor who wants to buy one share of stock may do so by making a small monthly payment (minimum: about $40) to his broker. The money will be turned over to a bank, which will pool it with funds of other investors, buying the stock and crediting the investor with whatever fraction of a share his payment represents. Funston thinks the plan will appeal to small investors for two reasons: 1) it will enable them to buy stock without first accumulating the whole amount...
...order for coal to help itself, the small mine operators will need to pool their resources to pay for increased research and development. Wage cuts, once the standard answer, provide no solution. As the Northern mine operators' Chief Bargainer Harry Moses says: "[Wage cuts] never solved any of our problems . . . With any moderate reduction in the wage scale, the customer would soon have all the saving, and the oil and gas industries would promptly meet practically all our new prices." A more likely solution: a joint labor-management approach to the whole coal problem. Labor could make...