Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since the President returned from Christmas in Missouri, his personal physician, Colonel Wallace Graham of Kansas City, has kept him on a rigid reducing program. As soon after 5 p.m. as possible, the President pops into a sweatbox beside the White House pool, stews for a few minutes. Then he is let out to face a long, canvas-covered board, slanted at a 45° angle...
...President climbs obediently onto this contraption, puts his feet into straps, and, grunting as loudly as any man, bends down twelve times to touch his toes. This done, he splashes up & down the pool with his friends, comes out puffing, catches his breath while sitting under a sun lamp...
Enlistments and re-enlistments totaled about 400,000. But the pool of such volunteers was fast drying up, and too many had only signed up for short terms-12 or 18 months-because they feared that otherwise they would be caught in the draft and kept in longer...
...record was made almost by accident. The owner of the Lazy D.W.A. ("Gus") Delaney, 51, millionaire oilman (he made a reported $5,000,000 in the Fitts oil pool), had not intended to sell Del Zento. He changed his mind when he heard that there were three hot bidders on his ranch...
...Allen is urbane and companionable, has a fund of funny stories which Harry Truman likes to hear. While others may be busy with official chores, ever-ready George Allen is always at the President's beck & call. When Harry Truman takes an afternoon dip in the White House pool, Allen usually splashes around with...