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Word: pooled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sold stock by mail. Excerpts from the Cook sales letters: "We say it with cash dividend checks, not with flowers." "Oldfashioned hell is too good for the fake oil promoter, the most contemptible human rodent that ever breathed God's pure air." "We have the greatest oil pool in Texas." Ignorant "investors" lost $4,000,000 in the scheme. Where Dr. Cook claimed to have two great gushers producing 20,000 bbl. per day, the U. S. at his trial showed that from all his wells not ten barrels per day could be pumped. The sentencing judge compared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Oilman Out | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

...March 24 an inter-fraternity swimming meet will be held in the Big Tree Pool, with a Freshman interdormitory meet scheduled for the following day. The two contests will include the same events, three free style swims, a diving competition, a back stroke and a breast stroke race, and a relay for teams of four men each...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY SWIMMING MEET TO BE HELD APRIL 1 | 3/13/1930 | See Source »

...been announced that the first flooding of the swimming pool in the new gymnasium is scheduled for either today or tomorrow. The tiling has been completed and the pool is now ready for its preliminary testing. With this event the pool is completed and will be ready for the intercollegiate meet to be held on March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW SWIMMING POOL READY FOR FIRST FLOODING TODAY | 3/12/1930 | See Source »

...completion of the work has been hindered by the delay of the plasterers who were working on the ceiling. Due to the litter which dropped from this work into the pool the tilers were unable to proceed with the final cleansing. The plastering and lighting have by this time both been completed, however, and the pool was thoroughly cleansed yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW SWIMMING POOL READY FOR FIRST FLOODING TODAY | 3/12/1930 | See Source »

...oldest U. S. city) and St. Johns County, Fla., one place "in which there would be no poverty, no preventable suffering, no unattended medical cases and no avoidable diseases." As a starter, he gave the Florida Normal & Industrial Institute (coeducational Negro school) a gymnasium, a cinder track, a swimming pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sir Harry Lauder | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

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