Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Lowell House placed seven men on Frank Vaughan's all-star swimming team which is slated to meet the undefeated Kirkland outfit, House league champions, in the Indoor Athletic Building pool Friday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Adams took two places, while Winthrop, Eliot, and Leverett were awarded one apiece...
...under arms in the Near East. London admitted that Great Britain has 500,000 men there-and then tried to suppress the figure. The Australians and New Zealanders landing at Suez were reported to number 30,000, volunteers all. Further attention was drawn to this troop pool by the arrival in Cairo, Egypt of its commander, fox-smart little General Maxime Weygand, to join Lieut. General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, Britain's Near East commander, in reviewing an Anglo-Egyptian contingent, three-quarters British and largely mechanized, drawn up on the desert just outside Heliopolis. The line extended...
...past three weeks speculators in the City have been gambling on "generous" terms. The value of railway stocks has risen by $400,000,000. Last week the stocks went even higher. Minister of Transport Euan Wallace announced that the four main British railroads which have operated under a pool scheme since the war began, would be guaranteed a wartime profit of ?40,000,000 ($160,000,000) a year. Since the guaranteed profit was based on the revenues for 1935, 1936 and 1937, excluding the depression year of 1938, the terms seemed more than generous. In addition, the companies will...
There were thrills and laughs aplenty in the pool Saturday night for a large crowd watching the competition for two New England A. A. U. Senior Championships and two State titles in addition to the appearance of the famed 12-girl Wellesley College Water Ballet...
...undefeated Yardling swimming team piled up 76 points to Brookline High's 28 and Huntington School's 27 in the Indoor Athletic Building pool Saturday afternoon. The Crimson first-year men swept seven out of eight possible firsts...