Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month ago, his grateful Finns made up a pool, paid for his air passage for a visit. Armed with hundreds of lollipops for the children, McAllister went. He saw nearly all his families. The children had been taught to say: "How do you do, Uncle Bob. Welcome to Finland." Last week McAllister returned happily to the U.S. and to his lonely one-room apartment in The Bronx. He hoped to save enough in two years to visit Finland again...
...Touch. But all his life he had walked a financial tightrope. He had tried to engineer a pool to raise the price of Devoe & Raynolds common stock in 1926, had gone resoundingly broke to the tune of $3,000,000. He had piled venture on venture, money on money. In the '30s, he had formed a working partnership with Joseph Watkins, a cultivated, gracious man, like Brooks a native of Minnesota, a Harvard graduate, and a financier. They worked together, dined together, and made money together. Then Brooks seemed to lose his touch. Watkins was forced to supply more...
...Earl. He has none of Huey's wild, magnetic appeal. At 53 he is a soft, dumpy man with a mushy voice, a flaccid handshake, a venomous temper and the general bearing of a small-town pool-hall operator. Crowds bother him and he cannot hide a furtive wariness when job seekers approach him. He is a dedicated horseplayer-who makes two dollar bets. But he has the "Long Look" and a shrewd insight into the mind of Louisiana's tobacco-chewing common...
...cultivated Peiping gentleman cherishes three things in his quiet walled courtyard: a peng (broad overhead matting) for shade, a goldfish pool for the cool grace of its inmates, and a pomegranate tree for its fruit. With these he can free his mind from such pressing disorders as the occasional boom of cannon outside the town and the runaway inflation inside...
Humble's big problem now is shipping the oil to the mainland. At present, the oil is going in barges, but the company will probably build a 7½-mile platform-to-maimand pipeline for it. Oilmen think the Gulf pool should ultimately yield at least 4 billion barrels...