Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's annual course for those who are preparing to pass the examination for their senior life saving certificates will open today in the swimming pool in the Indoor Athletic Building, and will continue for about six weeks. The course is open to all members of the University who can pass the eligibility test, and will be given on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 3 to 4 o'clock and 4 to 5 o'clock...
...seek an end to the threatened loss of homes and productive capacity now faced by hundreds of thousands of American farm families," President Roosevelt told Congress last week when he sent to the Capitol for speedy enactment his bill for refinancing agricultural mortgages. His land-leasing -domestic - allotment-cotton pool measure now in the Senate's hands is designed to raise commodity prices and thus put cash into the farm industry from the bottom by direct subsidies (see p. 18). His mortgage bill is meant to ease the debt load pressing down on the farm from...
Died. Frank Theodore Hulswit, 57, onetime utilities tycoon; when he fell/jumped from his apartment on the fifth floor of Manhattan's Hotel Astor. President of United Light & Power Co. since 1910, he resigned, lost a reputed $10,000,000 when his New York Curb Exchange bull pool in the company's stock collapsed in 1926. Next year he came back as president of American Commonwealths Power Corp., was elected a director of United Light & Power...
...preferred stock of Cosden Oil Co. Joshua who had no money to put in was guaranteed 50% of the common. He shopped around in the oil field for months-looking for cheap oil lands. In 1927 he brought in a little well in Ector County, opening the Ector pool, and promptly sold a half interest to Texas Co. for $250,000 and two free wells. He bought a lease in Howard County that placed his new company in the Suttles Pool where oil was found at three levels. He built a large refinery at Big Spring and a pipe line...
...attempt to reproduce on paper the sound of a waterfall (TIME, March 20) recalls to my mind a told-as-true account, which appeared in the Boys' Own Paper during, I think, 1920. of a scientist who spent some weeks, or months, chucking big stones into a deep pool, then listening carefully. At length he gave the world the following plausible and quite delightful word, as representing accurately the complete sound caused by the sudden entry from above of a large stone into a deep pool...