Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ancient Roman Emperor Augustus, a great bath lover, would have joyed to behold the swimming pool on his namesake ship. It is on the top deck, under the sunshine, where it ought to be. All other big ship pools are many decks down, steamy, stuffy...
Schulte-United. On the stock exchange shares of Schulte Retail Stores Corp. rose a few points. The apparent operations of a stock market pool was one cause; another, and more important, was the much mooted merger of Schulte (300 branches) with United Cigar Stores Corp. (3,000 branches). The two firms are now joined in interests in Union United Tobacco Co. (a holding company) and Schulte-United Five-Cents-to-a-Dollar Stores. United has large stockholdings in the Pennsylvania Drug Co., Schulte in the American Druggists Syndicate; United in Life Savers Inc., Beechnut Packing Co., Gillette Safety Razor...
...found he was losing caste with the natives for imprisoning a god. And throughout his Indian sojourn he learned to understand that reverence for the almighty cobra. One night he was wakened by an unearthly din; his terrified dog crept under the mosquito netting with him. In a pool of moonlight a family of cats fought with a host of rats: danse macabre to the rhythm of warlike squeaks and terrific meows: Then sudden silence. A glistening cobra had glided out of the gloom. Glassy-eyed, cats and rats, man and dog, stared fascinated while the snake feasted upon...
...Minneapolis broker. The Lewis estate on Seven Pines Creek, like the Pierce estate on the Brule, has its own trout hatcheries in spring-fed ponds. The Presidential catch was 137 (in two sessions). While the President fished, Mrs. Coolidge and John Coolidge took a swim in the Lewis swimming pool. Mrs. Coolidge said it was the most fun she had this summer...
Causes of this unhappy situation were not obscure. In December, 1926, leading U. S. tire manufacturers formed the American rubber pool, proceeded during the next year to accumulate a great supply at prices ranging from 35 to 41? a pound. But last February, the price of crude rubber broke sharply, fell to 26.9? in March, 17.2? in April, stood last week just under 20?. Large tire companies took a staggering loss on their inventories. Tire prices fell to meet fierce competition from mail order houses and small dealers who had not accumulated a rubber reserve...