Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been experimenting with a rubberish byproduct, contemplated forming a separate company to develop it. It found that Commercial Solvents Corp. had a wholly owned subsidiary, Resinox Corp., whose research was along the same lines. Last week Corn Products announced it had bought "a substantial interest" in Resinox, would pool data on synthetic resins. This is not the first liaison between the two companies: George Monroe Moffett is president of Corn Products, director of Commercial Solvents. Commercial Solvents sells corn by-products to Corn Products. And Corn Products is rumored to own 100,000 shares of Solvents...
...blonde hair, a compactly graceful figure, an enormous vitality which Southern California would like to believe comes from the fact that she has always lived there. She used to play baseball with the Chicago Cubs when they trained at Catalina Island, was tumbling in a Los Angeles pool when a swimming coach saw that she might make a good diver...
These are now the best U. S. women swimmers and divers. A few years ago the best were Gertrude Ederle, who swam the British channel Aug. 6, 1926 and is now instructor at a pool near Manhattan; Martha Norelius, who won the Wrigley Marathon in 1929, the Olympic Championship in 1924 and 1928, is now married to Joseph Wright Jr., 1928 Diamond Sculls winner; Helen Wainwright who is giving diving exhibitions on the Berengaria's four-day tours; Aileen Riggin who toured Europe last winter and recently lost a job with Dobbs & Co., bankrupt haberdashers...
...Bronx Beach pool, New York, the best U. S. women swimmers and divers congregated last week for the A. A. U. championships in a meet made especially important by its bearing on next year's Olympics. The swimmers raced at night, lashing silver lines of spray across a pool which arc-lights made shiny and black. Among the spectators were lifeguards from beaches nearby; parents of contestants; Gertrude Ederle who was amazed at Helene Madison and asked Georgia Coleman for an autograph signed "divingly yours...
Peach Plan. California peachgrowers, with harvest time not far off, last week were wondering how many of their trees to uproot. For peaches from uprooted trees the canners' pool will pay an extra $2.50 a ton. Object: to reduce California's orchards by 12,000 acres, lessen overproduction next year...