Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army Corps of Engineers sent out white-mustached Colonel George T. Derby, a veteran of the Pacific war, to do the job. Derby let the contracts to a pool of five U.S. companies, operating together as "Atlas Constructors," on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis (the fee being something over...
...time, Laughton fiddled with plans to bathe each actor in a pool of light, or to sit them on ladders with enormous trains of cloth. He finally settled for simplicity. Recalling the "drama" of intent musicians turning the pages of their scores as they play, he perched the actors on high stools, got four music stands and four outsized, green-bound scripts to place on each stand. There is no curtain. Laughton merely walks on stage, makes a few pleasant, informal remarks, and introduces the other players. They get on their stools, open their books, and the play begins...
...Francisco, Metropolitan Life's 43-building Parkmerced apartment project hoped to fill 1,683 apartments at $115 a month and up. By last week, only 37 units were rented of the first 153 finished. In Los Angeles, one luxury apartment owner had to build a swimming pool before he could lure any tenants. Here & there across the nation, some landlords were beginning to offer rent concessions, e.g., move in now, start paying rent in May. Even in overcrowded Manhattan, new building owners were having trouble renting high-priced units ($240 and up for five rooms). On Staten Island last...
...announcement, typed on H.A.A. stationery, displayed the Eastern Intercollegiate Spear Fishing Association rules for the new sport. Referees will release 100 fish in the Blockhouse pool, while "forwards" from each 12-man team will jump in to spear the fish. "Backs" will remain on the sidelines to spear the forwards. Fish who fight back will be disqualified, and backs who wound forwards above the neck will be barred after the third infraction...
Even though Adams has its own swimming pool and six squash courts on Linden St., its teams are perennially near the bottom of House competition. The Gold Coasters thus resort to recreation rather than zealous competition. The annual undergraduate-tutor softball game in June is a famed sporting event...