Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roman Catholic parish in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England has found something better than bingo-a football pool and racing tip sheet combined...
...nation's race tracks on the other. In return for a down payment of a shilling initiation fee and a shilling a week thereafter, they invited their parishioners to 1) become members of their Church Development Society, 2) take a chance on a weekly football pool, and 3) receive free the society's'"Dead Cert Nap Selections" for Saturday's races. Some 500 parishioners joined...
Harvard's swimming team, second to the superhuman Elis last year in the Eastern Intercollegiate League, opens its season tonight in a non-league meet with M.I.T. Bill Brooks' freshmen launch the splashing contest in the Blockhouse pool at 7:30 p.m., and Hal Ulen's varsity goes on at about...
Contrary to legend, most of the big corporations which have recently built Southern plants were not primarily searching for cheap labor. Some Southern wages are still lower than Northern, but the gap is sure to narrow. Southern labor offers employers some other, solider advantages. The Southern labor pool is deep. (Mechanical cotton pickers, for instance, and other labor-saving farm machinery are expected to displace 2,000,000 field hands by 1965; many of them will be available for factory work.) The South's labor population is young and quick to learn. Employers who complain that they have...
...latest projects. But Fox thinks the pot worth the gamble, especially since a subsidiary of Standard Oil of California is spending more than $500,000 to drill a deep well near some of Leather's holdings. By going deep enough, it hopes to find a new oil pool that was missed before. Says Fox enthusiastically: "Standard has almost 100% of the gamble. If it strikes oil, U.S. Leather will start drilling madly...