Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem arises because the life insurance companies now have $36 billions in assets - the world's second greatest pool of private capital (first...
...needlessly complicated by having labor and production balanced by two committees, one run by WPB, one by WMC. But Byrnes, following recommendations by Bernard Baruch (see p. 19), gave them a potent weapon lacking in Buffalo-authority to cancel less essential contracts, if necessary, to create a labor pool and thus funnel the workers into the top priority industry-aircraft...
Then the Hopes migrated to Cleveland. There Bob ran around with a bunch of little toughies, filching apples from pushcarts, racking pool balls, selling papers (legend has it that John D. Rockefeller Sr. once rebuked Newsboy Hope for offering to trust him). He was also a choirboy until "in the middle of a lovely solo, my voice changed...
With his attractive wife Dolores Reade, a former nightclub singer whom he calls Mommy, and their two small adopted children, Hope lives unpretentiously in a rambling 15-room San Fernando Valley house that boasts neither swimming pool nor tennis court. His home life is best described as nonexistent. Said Hope recently: "When I get home these days, my kids think I've been booked there on a personal-appearance tour...
...additional equipment, Chris Jensen ransacked machine shops and railroad yards, came up with many a prize. Example: a White truck on railroad wheels, now used as a Port Cargill switch engine. To get water for launching, a pool 20 ft. deep was dredged at Port Cargill, and a 9-ft. channel was dredged all the way to the Mississippi...