Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dahlgran," alleged oil well locater. Eighteen months ago, Dr. Swoboda took in $70,000 for the stock; no oil has yet appeared. Said the letter: "This man Dahlgran through his power is to serve Swoboda and Swobodians. Dahlgran has located for me what he considers a very extensive oil pool ... and is positive that the first well will be an enormous gusher. ... I personally do not care for wealth for my own sake, but merely to aid Swobodians...
Placid as a still pool has been the great U. S. political issue of Power in recent months. But last week there was dropped into the subject an incident which came from such an eminence, with such publicity, that though the actual splash quickly subsided, the ripples seemed almost certain to be perceivable, perhaps as waves, long later in U. S. history...
...voted down a motion by Sir Austen Chamberlain to censure the Government for failing to alleviate unemployment. In the stodgy debate which followed (but got nowhere), Prime Minister MacDonald announced that, on the basis of a proposal by Liberal Leader David Lloyd George, the Liberal and Labor parties will pool their "best brains" in a conference to devise "work schemes." Efforts had been made to induce the Conservatives into this conference, and to label unemployment before the House as "a non-partisan issue," but Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin shrewdly abstained from entanglement...
...policemen come to prevent curiosity peepers from stampeding the house and ruining the grounds. Said she : "We picked up bushels of burnt matches from the grass every morning. Sightseers would sneak in . . . at night and strike matches to get a better view of the house and gardens, the pool and the tennis court. I used to have to get up at 3:45 every morning to go through all my mail. I had dozens of begging letters. An unfortunate old maid wondered whether I would pay her $50 a month out of the vast sum [$40,000] Mr. Coolidge...
...crude producer and refiner) bought Transcontinental Oil (small but well-integrated and recently prosperous; Amos L. Beaty, former Chairman of Texas Corp., has been Transcontinental Chairman since August 1929; 1929 earnings $4,723,990, three times 1928). The union is logical because the companies jointly control rich Yates Pool in Pecos County, Texas...