Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swimming pool-equipped Villa Verde on Macao's outskirts, Lobo shrugged off questions about the propriety of the trade. Just throwing a few crumbs to the Reds to keep them off his neck, he explained, recalling that during World War II he had stood the Japanese off, for the Allies' benefit, in similar fashion. But Macao's aid to Mao is more than crumbs, and even crumbs are important to a regime hungering for war materials...
Last week Duclus reported that in the past three months he and his men have distributed 49,559 Gambusia to housewives, ranchers, and swimming-pool owners. They themselves have planted 45,100 in rivers, streams and swamps. While Duclus and his hungry minnows stand guard, Angelenos will never have to spend the long, warm evenings slapping themselves silly...
With Iran's oil shut off from the West, 19 U.S. oil companies last week got Government blessing to set up an international pool. By using each other's pipelines, storage facilities and tankers, thus eliminating wasteful duplications, they hoped to gain enough production to make up half of the 600,000-barrel daily production lost in Iran...
...meter times by as much as five seconds. And last week at Detroit, in the National A.A.U. Championships, dozens did. In the 1,500-meters, Hawaii's little Ford Konno, 18 (5 ft. 6½-in., 143 Ibs.), bested Australia's John Marshall by a full pool length (50 meters). Time: 18:46.3. ¶ Calumet Farm added another to its dazzling array of racing wins. Last week in the $75,275 Arlington Futurity, a Calumet colt, undefeated Hill Gail, won by better than a length over a field of 18 of the nation's promising two-year...
...bears the title, Apostolic Visitor Extraordinary. The title reflects the worldwide dispersal of his flock: 100,000 of them in Free Europe, another 100,000 scattered in North and South America and Australia. One of Zagon's jobs is to provide them with Hungarian-speaking priests, from a pool of more than 250 who are under his administrative direction. He also has general responsibility for 125 Hungarian seminarians, now continuing their theological studies at various European schools-men who can carry on the old tradition...