Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nazis at The White last week followed the routine of guests at any fashionable resort. On the leafy lawns and terraces they sunned themselves, played ping-pong, swam in the heated pool, bought quantities of clothing at shops in the hotel basement. They did not mingle with the other guests, took their meals in lonely splendor in their own section of the big dining room...
That meant that out of every dollar wagered at Florida race tracks 15? (instead of 10?) would be taken out of the pool before dividing it among the winning betters. How horse players would react to this record levy caused Tropical's new owners some discomfort. Then came war to make matters worse...
...with Knudsen, who had given him the brush-off by claiming that he had no authority to take him through an auto plant to count the convertible machines. His new proposal was that when G.M., Ford and Chrysler got big orders for identical 30-ton tanks, the three should pool their facilities and subcontract to each other. This is a method of simplifying production which many industries (under the name of the Lyttleton plan) have been forced to in Britain. But the year closed before anyone knew whether Pearl Harbor was the U.S.'s Dunkirk...
...Where necessary, pool equipment and facilities, discontinue overlapping services and routes, regulate the routing of traffic. > Obtain from OPM materials for new equipment and maintenance...
...promote South American good will, Manhattan's misogynous New York Athletic Club, for the first time in its 73-year history, last week permitted women to splash in its pool. Reason: Brazil's 26-year-old Maria Lenk, breaststroke champion of South America and holder of the women's world's record at 200 and 400 meters...