Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backed Kenny on the assumption that he was P.A.C.-minded, at least more so than Earl Warren. The supporters from the left flooded the mails with Kenny postcards. At the last minute, Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, and Danny Kaye, members of the Hollywood Independent Citizens' Committee (swimming-pool pinks), plumped for Kenny on the radio. But all was wasted...
...measure was the authority to induct men between 18 and 45 whenever voluntary enlistments failed to provide the manpower for the postwar Army (1,070,000), Navy (558,000), and Marine Corps (108,000). If the House swung into line, the Army would be able to refill its manpower pool with a monthly average of 40,000 18-year-olds and 10,000 19-year-olds through Selective Service. But the House, which had twice shown its determination to keep teen-agers draft-free, still had its back...
...Gerard David and Van der Goes, such Germans as Dürer, Grünewald and Holbein. But the popular favorite by a day's march was Cranach's 16th-Century Fountain of Youth. His cosily detailed vision of the fountain seemed as real as a park pool. Cranach made people half-believe he had found the place where stooped cripples and trembling yellow hags could bathe and become pink-skinned virgins once again...
Hurok obviously enjoys hobnobbing with his famous clients. Hot summer weekends he is apt to be lazying beside Marian Anderson's Connecticut swimming pool. He so admired his first big name artist, Feodor Chaliapin, that he followed him to Europe to get his business-and lost $100,000 on him. Once Chaliapin and Hurok, dressed in rags, spent a night in a Bowery flophouse. It was a gag on Chaliapin's part; Hurok saw to it that newspaper photographers found out about...
...purposes they are the same. The board of directors of Limited, who get at least $40,000 a year and are usually bigwig politicians or financiers, are the same for N.V. But the board is controlled by Limited. It makes the policy for both companies. They buy materials together, pool profits, pay the same amount in dividends...