Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offer in the way of hot music? To be quite frank, the answer is: not much. The Copley Terrace used to give sessions under the impetus of the Boston Jazz Society, but nowadays the section of the Terrace where the hot men used to play looks like an unfinished pool room, which perhaps it is. The once jumping Ken Club is now indistinguishable from a thousand and one other marginal niteries. Best bet out of a poor field is the Club Savoy near the corner of Massachusetts and Columbus Avenues. Here a former Hampton sideman, Earl Bostie, manipulated the keys...
...problem now, said Administrator Small, was labor. Employment, at 58,000,000, was "practically full," leaving an "unbelievably low" unemployed pool of 2,000,000 (which includes unemployables). Said Jack Small: unless there is an increase in the labor force, the only way production could be increased now was by 1) a longer workweek, 2) new plants, 3) new labor-saving machinery. He might have added: and harder work by everyone...
...Sage continued sagely, "Naething can go wrong this afternoon. They'll be Drennan the Charles, Loring diving bells in the Athletic Building pool to find the Tufts team by five o'clock...
...chief G.I. problem has become: how to fraternize. The G.I. cannot take a Japanese girl to dinner: Army messes are off limits to Japanese; Japanese restaurants are off limits to Americans. A G.I. cannot take a Japanese girl to U.S. Army or Japanese movie houses, to a swimming pool, beach, or his billet...
...from the manpower pool remaining after the draft-exempt had been siphoned off, the Army expected to get 200,000 draftees by the time the new law expires in April. With a prospect of 150,000 re-enlistments and volunteers to help offset discharges, the Army thought it could just about meet its authorized April strength...