Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plan. Basic aim of the White-Morgenthau plan is to find a way to use the world's wealth to put the world back on its feet† The plan proposes that the governments of the world pool part of their financial resources, search out needed investments, and underwrite those that private capital will not-or cannot be expected to-handle. Its framework: > The United Nations Bank would have a total capital of $10 billion (expressed in "Unitas" equal to $10 in gold), in nontaxable, nontransferable $100,000 shares, to be divided among the United Nations by "an agreed...
...Club will hit the boards again this winter, after a long summer layoff. With the cooperation of V-12 authorities, the Club will produce a series of one-acters for Unit, and may give a full-scale production if it can get the necessary manpower. Big Tree, the swimming pool clubhouse behind the Grant Study will be open again Thursday, as H. D.ers greet stage-struck civilian and V-12 candidates with beer and cokes...
Died. Lou Costello Jr., youngest child of capering, cornfed Comedian Lou (Abbott &) Costello; after loosening a playpen slat, falling into the family swimming pool; the day before his first birthday; in Van Nuys, Calif. A few hours later his father went on the air for the first time after a seven-month illness and covered up with jokes about such subjects as life insurance...
From his Hobart College days, Pardue has set an example of muscular Christianity. In 1919, he was the A.A.U.'s Middle Western breaststroke champion. He still goes almost daily for a half-hour splash in the Buffalo Athletic Club's pool. His wife (Dorothy Klotz) won Grantland Rice's rating of third best woman golfer in the U.S. in 1928. In all his parishes he has pushed amateur athletics...
...college. It transpired, in fact, that Garvey was the 168-pound boxing champion of Notro Dame University one year--about 1938. Then two other guys took Mr. Garvey on in bowling and he clicked off a trio of games averaging about 175. Somebody else invited him to play pool one night and he knocked in 13 of the first 15 balls before the other guy could chalk...