Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, if he can draw up his specifications in time, Franklin Roosevelt will send a message to the Capitol asking Congress to make one of the wildest, brightest New Deal dreams come true. He will ask for a law to pour all Social Security payments in one big Federal pool, also to extend its benefits to some 27,000,000 household servants, farm laborers and migratory workers who are not now covered...
...benefits. Of the $2,582,230,805 which remained in the fund at the end of August (after administrative costs were deducted), all but $221,630,805 was invested by the Treasury in its own securities, was used by the Government to pay expenses. Into the unemployment pool, employers have paid $4,245,246,801. Of this, $1,757,230,769 (about 42%) has been paid back to workers in compensation. Thus between them these two funds have already provided $5,000,000,000 of "deflation"-far more than offset by Government deficit spending...
...often, and the Ritz Tower in New York is going to be one of them. The betting around Milk Street is that the sky-scraping Park Avenue hostelry will be dropped into the pot of so-called "special investments," which don't deserve to get into the big pool of Harvard property because of their "not quite respectable" character...
Cambridge's "old guard" of pool room politicos had better wander over to their offices in City Hall one of these days for a last look around, because the elections on November 4 under proportional representation and Plan E make it a safe bet that many of them won't be back...
...Just when we take an extra special one-thirty permission to go swimming in the Harvard pool, we find the building dark and the doors locked," complained a disgruntled friend...