Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your comment on water polo appearing under the head of Sport, in the March 16 issue was of considerable interest to me. Sometime or other, TIME seems to touch the present or past interest or hobby of everyone of its readers. The story of taking men out of a pool in an unconscious condition takes me back to the time of 1910 to 1914 where old-style water polo at Northwestern University and the Chicago Athletic Association was still a game for real waterdogs...
...usual, membership in the trading account was sold to individuals who would let the pool's managers handle all its affairs but who would share in its profits or losses. One member of the pool was William Frank Kenny, rich Brooklyn contractor, faithful friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith, onetime 20%-owner of the New York "Giants" baseball team (National Exhibition Co.). Since Contractor Kenny had been a Chrysler director (1925-28), since Jules Semon Bache and Edward F. Hutton were on the Chrysler board, it seemed that this big pool had a sure future. But last week the Bache...
...October 1929, Chrysler common stock sold at $30. The firms of J. S. Bache & Co. and E. F. Hutton & Co. formed a pool to buy and sell the stock in any amount so long as they did not carry more than 500,000 shares at one time. As usual, the pool was called a. "trading account...
Other gardens were there to suit every taste: a tropical pool; two Alpine gardens complete with rocks and running brooks; Japanese gardens with twisted pine trees, thatch-roofed tea houses. All week long crowds of curious Easterners milled about the desert garden of Robert F. Manda where more than 1,000 varieties of weird misshapen cacti were growing in sand and rocks. Fourth day of the show the crowd grew even thicker. The "Crown of Thorns," a rare silver-grey prickle bush brought from Palestine by Cactus-grower Manda 25 years ago, had suddenly burgeoned with dozens of brilliant...
Largest exhibit of the main floor was the Georgian garden of Florist Scheepers. Here were pink blossoming peach trees, dogwood, lilac and tulips, a brick-lined lily pool, and on the iron trellised porch of a white brick Georgian house with peacock blue blinds, Macaw Toto in his cage. A brilliant example of the art of landscape architecture was not Mr. Scheepers' only contribution to the show. From his greenhouses came two new flowers never before exhibited in the U. S., the Sweet Glad and the Glory...