Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Completed last week was the White House swimming pool, built by popular subscriptions of $15,000. Tiled in colors, 50 by 15 ft., it stands in the west wing connecting the executive offices with the main building. In accepting it, President Roosevelt revealed that he had once tried to build a similar pool but it caved in. He took a 30-min. swim before dinner - his first exercise since entering the White House...
...Took a swim with her husband in his new pool...
...House of Morgan headed a bankers' pool (Partner Whitney, who said he was "gun shy" of the word "pool." preferred to call it a "suspense account") to cushion the crashing stockmarket. It had resources of $250,000,000 of which it spent $137,752,705 in making a market for 37 key stocks. By 1930 the pool had turned a paper loss of $40,000,000 into a cash profit of $1,067,355. Morgan & Co. charged no commission for its services...
From Witness Barrett the battling lawyers draw an amazing story of how Mr. Mitchell made money for his wife. Whenever he bought a good stock, joined a pool or participated in a promising syndicate, he would cut her in. Only once did she lose. Often she was member of a big underwriting syndicate headed by such firms as Kuhn, Loeb or Dillon, Reed. Sometimes he did not even trouble to notify his wife until he mailed a check for her share of the profits. When he did, it was always with a formal letter starting "Dear Elizabeth," and filled with...
...East Texas wells from 50? to 10? a barrel, the same low reached nine months ago before the Governors of Oklahoma and Texas shut down the oil fields with militia. Reason for the latest cut: a new proration ruling by Texas increasing the allowable production of the East Texas pool from 400,000 to nearly...