Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confined himself mostly to the Mayor's own testimony, poking him on weak spots in his explanations. The Mayor wriggled painfully when, for example, the Governor took up the $26,000 in bonds the Mayor had received from J. A. Sisto & Co., brokers, as profits from a speculative pool in Cosden Oil Stock: Governor Roosevelt: Practically what happened was they said to you, "We'll put you into the Cosden pool. It won't cost you anything. . . ." Now how many shares did you think you were getting? Mayor Walker (flustered): I don't know that...
...traditional house is an artificed cave. The traditional bathtub is an artificed pool. Buckminster Fuller has replaced these "feudal and finite" properties with what he calls "services." Dwellers in the dymaxion house will bathe with an airpressure hose squirting 90% air, 10% water, no soap, in a compressed fog over their skin. Little water, no bathtub, no faucets or sinks, will be needed. Toilets will be dry, a machine converting sewage into methane gas to provide the house's light and power. Air will be conditioned, making bedclothes unnecessary. All machinery will fit into the central duraluminum mast...
From the huge Olympic Coliseum, with its three flagpoles, 105,000 seats and Olympic torch, the scene of the Xth Olympiad shifted last week to the 50-metre Olympic swimming pool, where 10,000 spectators with Japanese parasols sat in a small concrete stadium looking down at a narrow block of pale green water...
Cornered bears, fat with three years' profits, fought madly to cover their short positions. Badly squeezed, they howled loud & long. Once the rally was well under way their frantic buying helped pool managers to push stocks up & up. Outstanding leader of the advance was American Telephone & Telegraph, which soared from $70¼ a share to $114¼. U. S. Steel more than doubled its Depression low of $214-; many stocks tripled in value. Large orders from European money centres swelled the volume of U. S. buying, the dollar rose smartly...
...temporarily flagging market. With the Young Committee he discussed a plan for setting up a Commodities Credit Corp. with $100,000.000 capital, largely backed by the R. F. C., to finance inventory purchases of raw commodities, principally agricultural. Though no details were announced, it was promptly dubbed "the commodity pool," and stocks dependent on farm purchasing power were quickly whipped up to new highs. Bankers were generally cool to the idea. They want less tampering with commodity prices, not more...