Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...swimming pool, which will be flooded before the end of this week as soon as the debris of construction has been removed, will need to be refilled only two or three times each year, in the opinion of J. A. Carter Company, the plumbers in charge. The pool, 75 feet long, 40 feet wide, and U 1-2 and S 1-2 feet deep at the two ends, has a capacity of 225,000 gallons. It would require ten hours for the centrifugal pumps, which will be in action while the pool is being used, to circulate this amount...
...sold stock by mail. Excerpts from the Cook sales letters: "We say it with cash dividend checks, not with flowers." "Oldfashioned hell is too good for the fake oil promoter, the most contemptible human rodent that ever breathed God's pure air." "We have the greatest oil pool in Texas." Ignorant "investors" lost $4,000,000 in the scheme. Where Dr. Cook claimed to have two great gushers producing 20,000 bbl. per day, the U. S. at his trial showed that from all his wells not ten barrels per day could be pumped. The sentencing judge compared...
...Nicholson, journalist-explorer, into the unmeasured depths of the Carlsbad Cave in the Guadalupe Mountains in lower New Mexico. Last week came reports of his expedition, begun in January (TIME, Jan. 27). He told of nightmare rock formations, of crystal clear water and perfect cave pearls in a subterranean pool. While he was drinking, a feeble chirping split the stifling black silence. He investigated, found a nest of milk-white crickets, curiously not blind from living in the dark...
...March 24 an inter-fraternity swimming meet will be held in the Big Tree Pool, with a Freshman interdormitory meet scheduled for the following day. The two contests will include the same events, three free style swims, a diving competition, a back stroke and a breast stroke race, and a relay for teams of four men each...
...completion of the work has been hindered by the delay of the plasterers who were working on the ceiling. Due to the litter which dropped from this work into the pool the tilers were unable to proceed with the final cleansing. The plastering and lighting have by this time both been completed, however, and the pool was thoroughly cleansed yesterday...