Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conduct this enlarged recondition- ing program, the Army has built extensive facilities at its new Camp Edwards base. Several playing fields, an enclosed sports arena, a swimming pool, and 16 remedial gymnasiums are among the many features of the new plant. This base serves only casualties from the First Service Command. The Navy, the Marines, and the Army Air Corps maintain separate facilities for their wounded...
...will guarantee a soldier's loan, made by a private bank, loan company, or friend, up to $2,000, providing the RFC or Maury Maverick's Smaller War plants Corp. approves. One requirement: the project must have a reasonable chance of success. If they wish, soldiers can pool their loans, that is, 100 soldiers can get $200,000 to go into business together...
...thin, 17-mile-long Turner Valley oilfield (only sizable field in all Canada except the Canol area in the far north) was obviously petering out. Nevertheless, oilmen were convinced that a great untapped oil reservoir lay somewhere under Alberta. War speeded up the search for the hidden pool. This year wildcat drillers spent nearly $15,000,000 in the search...
...swimming pool at the famed old Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, paralyzed men exercise their flaccid limbs. In the wards, men with legs scarred by vein surgery and men with tantalum plates in their skulls read books on diesel engines, cattle raising, soil conservation. (They cheerfully show their wounds to anyone willing to look.) In the recreation hall, some of the wounded watch the Army training film Baptism of Fire and hear the day's war news. A man in the occupational-therapy department is absorbed in making a set of four-leaf-clover buttons of clay...
...lady hostesses "resent" having WAVES, WACs, SPARs and women marines at their servicemen's parties, husbands of hostesses ought to get together and entertain servicewomen. One of her WAVES had told her about one such party, "held in somebody's back yard because they had a swimming pool-it was not an organized thing." Everyone had a good time despite the fact some of the men were old enough to be the girls' fathers...