Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lives in a sunny, 14-room house with an adjoining tennis court and swimming pool where he roughhouses in off hours with four shiny, beaming sons. He plays par golf, and possesses an honorary Ph.D...
...Navy's $44,000,000 station, when it is completed next June, will have some 500 buildings, a 17-care assembly & repair shop, a 6,300-ft. seawall, 24 miles of roads a 39-mile railroad, swimming pool, clubroombs, hospitals, barracks, and cabanas along the Gulf shore. It will also have a veteran Navy man for commandant: genial, blue-eyed, imperturbable Captain Alva D. Bernhard, until recently in command of the Aircraft Scouting Force. A third larger than Pensacola, the 4.658-acre air station is not one base but four-three of them fully equipped flying fields within...
From this monthly pool of 800 potential airmen, the Navy hopes to get a peak of 560 pilots a month by next spring. It sorely needs them. Slow in getting under way, the Navy air program produced only 715 pilots last year, bringing its total to 3,639- a long way short of its immediate goal (15,000 fliers to man a 10,000 plane fleet), of its 1945 objective (25,000 active and reserve pilots) . Best it could hlpe for, even with the 13-month training course cut to seven and a half, was 6,000 graduate pilots...
John Thomas Cain has three hobbies: snooker pool, beer drinking and rescuing bombees (score to date: twelve single-handed rescues, 44 assists). Playing pool one night, John heard the crash of a bomb, looking out of the billiard parlor saw a paint factory down the street go up in a stinking inferno of flames and fumes. With four policemen John dug into the basement, slithered through a four-foot flood of paint, dodged arcing electric wires. On doors they hauled ten workmen into the street, six alive. As they were carrying the last one away the building shuddered and fell...
Last week, in Buffalo's Athletic Club pool, this year's national swimming and diving champions won their titles. Outstanding performances...