Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jolson is half as lively in front of a microphone as he is in conversation around his Hollywood swimming pool, Kraft need not worry. The agency is spending at least $20,000 a week on the show, in which Al is supported by acid-tongued Pianist Oscar Levant. Kraft offered Al a fat four-year contract, without options, 39 weeks a year, with two weeks off in every...
After its fashion, Hollywood was doing its bit to fight the high cost of living. Paddock Engineering Co., which has built almost all of California's swimming pools (50% of those in the U.S.), gravely announced a "People's Pool." Through ads in Los Angeles papers, this symbol of high living was placed within easy reach of the common man; a swimming pool could be ordered by merely sending in the tearaway coupon. The price: $2,500. By last week, 63 orders had been placed for People's Pools...
...Wonder. Producer of the People's Pool is Philip Ilsley, 51, thrice-married brother of Canada's Minister of Justice and onetime farmer, art dealer, lecturer, florist and real-estate man. He developed the cost-saving construction method while building houses (and pools) for movie stars in 1936 at fashionable Brentwood. Instead of a flatbottomed, straight-sided pool, which needed expensive forms and supports, he used a rounded bottom, based on steel-wire mesh. By using a pneumatic hose to pour the concrete, Ilsley cut construction time to six days...
Visitors and residents of the Indoor Athletic building do not find swimming coach Hal Ulen at home these days during the afternoon. For that matter, they won't find the swimming team in the pool where they belong, either. Coach and candidates, about 70 of them, are spending their afternoon practice time in the third floor boxing room; but instead of tossing punches they throw medicine balls at each other...
Clayton told them that the 16 nations must plan more positive steps to increase their own production and pool their own resources. For example, Britain must schedule more coal production, France more wheat. The nations must set up a supervisory body to check up on promises to meet higher production goals. And the "bill" of dollar needs for the next four years, already cut from $29 billion to $20.6 billion, must be cut even further if the plan was to win congressional approval...