Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back from London, Presidential Adviser Harry Hopkins talked about a "real" shipping pool. He apparently meant a plan to bring all U.S. and British vessels, the ships of all other United Nations too, under one single control, because the so-called Combined Shipping Pool, of which Rear Admiral Emory S. Land is chief, had failed to combine, had failed to coordinate, had failed to move the stuff...
...United Nations, if they dictate the peace, might expand the Western Hemisphere cotton pool into a worldwide international cotton agreement...
Once a year in the spring, the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral society, and the Boston Symphony pool their talents, and give a Pension Fund Concert that for many is the highlight of Boston's musical season. The bulk of these concerts has usually been one of the great religious choral works, simply because the Latin biblical and liturgical texts with their unity of feeling, their rich variety of emotional colors, and their singable sonority have always inspired the best composers to their best choral writing. This year, Koussevitsky has chosen two magnificent old ticket-sellers for his program...
When the President swam in the White House pool, he took business callers along to finish conversations. Telephone calls from the far corners of the world interrupted his evenings; he seldom got to the White House movies now. He observed a nightly blackout: 2,700 yards of double-thickness blackout curtains were hidden behind White House draperies...
...with sweat in the tropic night heat, finished the operation, picked up the patient, carried him off in his arms, laid him on the floor in an inside room, picked up another Chinese soldier and resumed operating. The nurses rushed out to the courtyard and washed towels in a pool beneath the palm trees...