Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speech promised that at the Imperial Economic Conference to be held in Ottawa next summer "agreements will be concluded for closer empire trade which will strengthen still more the bonds of empire and bring to every part of it great and enduring prosperity." Canada's so-called "Wheat Pool" (similar in its aim to the U. S. Grain Corp.) will "take steps for the orderly marketing of the wheat crop of Western Canada"-as though anyone knew how to do that satisfactorily...
...three weeks course in life saving will start today in the swimming pool of the New Indoor Athletic Building. The course will be for senior life savers in the University who wish to pass their examination to become qualified examiners...
This examiner's test is considerably more difficult than the senior life saving test, and Coach Bob Muir advises men who intend to take the test to get into condition now, by swimming occasionally in the pool. The test to be taken at the end of the three weeks includes holding a ten-pound weight above the surface for several minutes by treading water, swimming a quarter of a mile free style, and retrieving a brick in ten feet of water without diving...
...game 20 years ago between New York and Chicago for the U. S. water polo championship, the star of the Chicago team did not get out of the pool. His body was found at the bottom. He was revived with difficulty...
...bonus paid to you by Mr. Carnegie 30 years ago does not mention that the fabulous profits realized then by the iron and steel industry were due not so much to any super-management but rather to the utterly unjustified high protective tariff and the rail pool. No such profits are obtained today...