Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest fish in Hawaii's economic pool are her five big companies of "factors"?American Factors, C. Brewer & Co. ("oldest American corporation west of the Rockies"), Castle & Cooke, Alexander & Baldwin, Theodore Davies & Co. These firms, controlled by old missionary-merchant families and interlocked by marriage, own or act as agents for most of Hawaii's sugar plantations. At the turn of the century James D. Dole, no islander but a second cousin of Patriarch Sanford, came out from Boston, and started the pineapple business which made him many a million. After suffering huge losses...
...modern, five-story Y. M. C. A. building. It used to be chocked full daily by 3,400 members having fun at concerts, lectures, sports. Last week a visitor might have wandered through every one of its 75 bedrooms, through its grand hall, its two gymnasiums, its barbershop, swimming pool, library, restaurant and met not a living soul...
...bright and early in the morning the three adventurers swam in the country club pool, visited local homespun weavers, motored 40 miles down over the mountains to visit their confrères, Misses Vance and Vale (Tryon Toy Makers) who for a generation have been teaching wood carving to the hillbillies of Polk County...
...sold in interstate commerce, cannot put its rules of fair practice into operation until registration begins. Its margin requirements do not take effect until Oct. 1. The S.E.C. will take over enforcement of the Securities Act of 1933, now under the Federal Trade Commission, Sept. 2. But lest pool operators try to make a killing before the Securities Exchange Law becomes effective, Chairman Kennedy announced that he would exert his "influence" to stop all trading irregularities...
Talk of diminishing fuel oil stocks, however, did not prevent Oil Administrator Ickes last week from devising a new plan to stop ''hot oil" production in Texas. The Department of Justice had failed to approve the industry's plan for a $10,000,000 oil purchasing pool among 29 companies and Congress had gone home without giving him a law to control and punish companies which produced oil in excess of their quotas. Now he cajoled 38 East Texas refiners representing 87% of the companies of that area into a gasoline stabilization agreement. The refiners promised...