Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Created a War Shipping Administration (WSA) to control the operation, purchase, charter, requisition and use of all ocean vessels under the flag or control of the U.S. (except fighting ships and those engaged in coastwise, intercoastal and inland transportation). Purpose: to set up a shipping pool to serve military and economic strategy, i.e., to bring in rubber instead of tapioca. The new WSAdministrator: leathery, salty Rear Admiral Emory S. ("Jerry") Land, 63, head of the Maritime Commission...
...Pool shark is a title distasteful to most women. But Ruth ("Lefty") McGinnis, 30-year-old daughter of a Honesdale, Pa. barber, is proud of her ability with a cue. When she was only ten, little Ruthie could pocket 15 balls in succession,, barnstormed with Champion Ralph Greenleaf as an "added attraction" to his act. A few years ago, during an exhibition on a substandard table (4½ by 9), Miss McGinnis made a run of 128. World's record on a standard table...
...Production Director William H. Harrison thought they could do it. To help them, some outsiders were enlisted: makers of printing presses, textile machinery, paper machinery. Detroit tool shops were called on to make more of Detroit's own new tools, pool others. Even England is now sending a few old but still useful industrial machine tools...
...water ballet by a corps of 12 Wellesley mermaids, A.A.U. championship races, and an exhibition of swimming by seven year old Miss Leslie Bromley featured the Water Carnival last night in the pool of the Indoor Athletic Building...
Among the many formations made by the Wellesley swimmers were cartwheels, a V for Victory, expanding circles, and whirling crosses. They culminated the act by swimming the length of the pool in an H formation...