Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want to swim? Not in your own pool-shortages of waterproof paint, of chlorine to purify the water. And less chlorine means more tattletale grey in the laundry...
Franklin Roosevelt, who thrives on salt air, missed the fishing trips prescribed in peacetime by Rear Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, the White House physician. He missed his regular dips in the White House swimming pool, for which even weekends were now too crowded, and the relaxation of an Old-Fashioned before a leisurely dinner. He was more subject to head colds, had more trouble throwing them off. But he still kept his weight down to 186, could still cast off his burdens and get a night's sound sleep; he could still laugh. If he could get away...
...groups rather than by number was spiked last week by War Secretary Stimson. The lottery system still prevails. If the Army wants a new batch of soldiers, they will be gathered from the rolls of all three previous registrations in proportion to the number of them in each pool, and low-number men will be the first selected...
...they showed a tentative price of $30 to a Chicago Ordnance officer. The Lieutenant looked at the figure, gasped, told them it was much too low. So they revised it to $42, added $6 more when the size of the order was cut. When the bids were opened, the pool's bid was rejected as $1 too high, despite the fact that they had all the needed equipment ready and could start work right away, whereas one of the successful bidders had to build a complete addition to handle the contract...
...final member of the so-called "big three" within the Bulldog squad is backstroker Danny Dannenbaum, who set a new Princeton pool record for 150 yards with a time of one minute, 35.5 seconds last week...