Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pool, on paper, all possible defense tools in plants both large and small; 2) to take defense orders to all these machines, or move the machines to factories busy on defense; 3) to provide skilled workmen and stepped-up schedules which would keep the machines busy as many hours as possible out of the week...
...Britain's pool of trained men in "reserved occupations" includes some 200,000 doctors, architects, physicists, chemists and other university men, is replenished by allowing students in these technical categories to carry on with their studies...
White House orders for a 2,000,000-ton shipping pool for aid to Britain last week (see p. 15) caught U.S. ship lines in the midst of their busiest, most harassed period in history. On all the seven seas except the North Atlantic, U.S. shipping has tried to take over from the flagging British the great task of moving the bulk of the world's freight. Before war began the U.S. overseas fleet (then 1,749,689 active tons, 87% over age) often ran almost empty on its Government subsidies, carried only around 30% of the nation...
...Japanese beetle probably came from Japan on a shipment of ornamental shrubs. It was discovered in the U.S. in 1916 near Riverton, N.J. Like concentric ripples in a pool, the beetles spread year by year to surrounding territory. Since quantities of U.S. nursery stock are grown in the most beetled area of New Jersey, the insects would soon have infested the whole U.S. but for a firm Federal quarantine. Each year on the eastern seaboard the beetles now devour millions of dollars' worth of foliage, fruits, flowers, vegetables. They spend over three-fourths of their year of life...
...film's shooting. Somewhat confined by the British blockade, Producer Jannings made the fields of Berlin's suburbs serve for the African veldt. It was no trouble to get oxen from Hungary. Nor were soldiers a problem. Adolf Hitler gladly supplied them from his vast unused troop pool...