Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mixed crowd jammed the three sides of Mussey's amphitheatre on Chicago's South Wabash Avenue one night last week to watch two men in dinner jackets and soft shirts play for the pocket billiard (pool) championship of the world. "Quiet Please" signs were unnecessary, for excited spectators hardly dared to breathe. The players, who had forged through the three weeks' tournament to top a list of ten were Erwin Rudolph of Cleveland and Felix Delasandro (Andrew Ponzi) of Philadelphia. Rudolph is medium-sized round-faced, stolid. He developed his cue skill between working in a steel...
...John Sargent, the insurance partner of James Roosevelt, took seats on the Tack board. It was news last week when the Tack directors voted to split the stock three-for-one. Next day Tack stock tumbled from $34.75 a share to $21. Rumors flew thick that the Tack pool had been punctured. It had-but not the way Wall Street suspected. The New York State Attorney General curtly announced that he had been investigating Tack's amazing rise from a low of $1.50 a share early in the year to last week's high. Swift & Co. announced...
Favored to down a weak M.I.T. team, the Varsity swimming team will enter its second meet of the year this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building Pool. After swamping Bowdoin 62-9, the natators can look for only a little more opposition from the Tech team, which only managed to squeeze out a close 45-32 victory over the Maine team...
...Smart David Stern was mistaken if he meant to imply that other Manhattan newspapers had offered $250,000 to kill the Post. What they did, after Publisher Martin decided to kill his own newspaper, was to pool $150,000 for the Post's name and Associated Press membership, provided that Publisher Martin give his 700 newsmen and pressmen two weeks salary to keep them in funds over the holidays...