Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cache. In Pocatello, Idaho, police investigating a pool-hall theft noticed a suspicious bulge on Cecil Jones's face, forced open his mouth, extracted fourteen $20 bills...
Just how polio spreads is still uncertain. But the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis advises against swimming in a fresh-water pool in a polio area...
...Swim. In Topeka, Kans., Gage Park swimming pool reopened with a request to bathers to hang onto their bathing suits this year, because the last time the pool was drained employes found ten suits...
Suddenly, at the No. 5 elevator of the Saskatchewan Pool Terminal, Ltd., where the Sonora was loading, a pillar of flame shot 300 ft. skyward. There was an earth-shaking roar, heard several miles away. No. 5's cement walls, towering 180 ft. above dock level, fell apart like cardboard. The top four floors of the big bin were sheared away, and fell in a death-dealing avalanche of concrete and twisted steel, smashing nearby freight cars pancake flat. Concrete pillars, 2 ft. square, were tossed through the air like matchsticks...
...need for both coffins and prayers increased because the people trusted garlic (almost unobtainable at $20 to $50 a stem), and red paper crosses pinned on their doors to prevent cholera. Others found a rooster tied to a corpse more efficacious. Many heard that a stagnant pool behind a certain temple would save them, and the police had to drive away would-be drinkers...