Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announced that the Lehmans had sold the estate, their 19-room Tudor mansion and all the fixings (asking price: $150,000) to a chain-store owner. Some of the fixings : a sun room overlooking Long Island Sound, ten-car garage, six-room gatehouse, terraced gardens, tennis court, oval swimming pool, five horse stalls (without horses) and a root cellar...
Teheran's "informed public," the students and the intellectuals, the swarming bureaucracy, the editors and the tea-shop sages, were feeling depressed. It was not the heat: one could always take a bus to the cool foothills of the Elburz Mountains, or sit beside a pool in a garden nightclub and watch the moon glide across the sky. It was not business: apart from the standstill import trade, business was fair. It was not politics, the capital's favorite indoor & outdoor sport. What really bothered Teherani was the growing realization that the West no longer seemed to care...
...prostate cancer may have to agree to a routine in which his body wastes are collected for as long as three weeks, the enzyme content of his blood is checked each day, his blood pressure taken as often as every half-hour, and he may be dunked into a pool now and then to gauge the water content of his body. Some arthritis patients with a stubborn type of anemia will give blood which will be made radioactive before it is put back into their systems; thus the researchers can test a theory that the red blood cells are dying...
TWENTIETH Century-Fox, which has been collecting $350 a month in royalties on seepage from an oil pool 1,500 feet below its Hollywood lot, plans more oil exploration. It has been given permission by Los Angeles officials to sink 13 wells on its property, hopes to collect royalties of $10,000 a month from each well in the next two years...
...roasting, from binding books to freezing ice cream (162 plants) and making brooms and spectacles. It owns some 122,000 housing units, and by the Comptroller General's estimate, rents them at a loss. Every Washington agency operates its own fleet of motor vehicles, although one central motor pool (not to mention taxis) could handle the job. General Services Administration maintains a fleet of trucks for moving Government furniture about Washington, and since some of the trucks may be used only half a day a week, private movers could do it cheaper. The Government spends an average...